Harry P Leu Gardens
Fifty-acre garden with a historic house and one of the largest camellia collections in the US.
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This guide to Harry P. Leu Gardens in Orlando follows a boy who turned nickel fans into dimes and grew up to build one of Florida's largest industrial supply companies. You'll hear how Harry and his wife Mary Jane spent a small fortune in 1936 on a farmhouse and its land, then filled it with camellias and roses gathered from trips around the world despite Florida's heat and humidity. Listen for how two people with no formal training built one of the largest camellia collections outside California, one plant at a time.
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