Camellia Hill Botanical Garden
Sprawling camellia arboretum with thousands of trees from eighty countries, in bloom through winter.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Camellia Hill Botanical Garden on Jeju follows the quiet, decades-long project of Jeju farmer Yang Eon-bo, who in 1984 began pulling up his family's mandarin trees to plant camellias gathered from eighty countries. It traces his hunt for the rarest specimens, including some of the world's few fragrant varieties, across the twenty-five years between his first planting and the garden's opening in 2009. Look for one of those fragrant blooms near the entrance grove as you walk the paths he built largely alone.
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