Bergianska trädgården

This guide to Bergianska trädgården in Stockholm follows botanist Veit Wittrock's years-long pursuit of a single Amazon water lily, and the heated glass house he persuaded the Royal Academy of Sciences to fund around one pond in 1900. You'll hear what made the plant's leaves an engineering puzzle worth studying year-round, and why Victoria House still stands when the copies other European gardens built beside their own ponds mostly didn't. It follows the tropical plants Wittrock brought in to keep the lily company, from orchids to rice and sugarcane.