Understory installation experiments referenced spaces such as glass houses, where living specimens are protected. The works made particular reference to the lavish interiors of the Kew Gardens Glasshouse, with its exquisite spiral staircase. A display case lined with mirrors mimics the infinite repetition of propagation and the global replication of environments designed to protect botanical specimens. The rare plant featured, Nematolepis Wilsonii, was presumed extinct in the wild after Victoria’s Black Saturday fires of 2009. Two months prior to the fire, the Victorian Conservation Seed bank collected from the one known site where they had grown naturally. Seeds were passed on to both the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and the Kew Gardens Millennium Seed Bank for cultivation, in order to restore the population in the wild. Remarkably, one year after the fires the plant regenerated out of earth that had been incinerated to a depth of 1 meter. This plant’s recent history tells a story of vulnerability, survival, recovery and resilience, throughout which human intervention is key factor.