Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden

This guide to Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden in Helsinki opens on a February morning in 1944, when bombing raids near the garden shattered its glasshouses and froze out most of a collection assembled since 1833. It follows what one staff member chose to carry out of the wreckage that same morning, and where that small plant spent the decades while the greenhouses around it were rebuilt, twice over. Listen for how long an ordinary house, far from any garden, can end up standing in for one.