The American Camellia Society supports the Great Gardens of America Preservation Alliance in its work to preserve, to propagate and to distribute the Ancient Camellia cultivars so they will grace our gardens for countless more generations.Douglas Ruhren. Three hundred and thirty-five of the 478 "ancient" camellia cultivars known to have come to the United States are now being grown at Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. This represents tremendous progress in this young effort to preserve the "ancient" and "historic" camellias and azaleas. Who is behind this preservation effort, and how did they come to set this as their goal, and just what are "ancient" and "historic" camellias and azaleas? And what challenses does this effort present?
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