The Private Life of Plants - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Travelling
David Attenborough's incredible journey into the world of plants. By using advanced timelapse photography, the plants are shown as complex and highly active organisms - growing, fighting, competing, breeding and struggling to survive.
This programme demonstrates the techniques plants employ to travel from place to place to find new homes.
Growing
David Attenborough continues his incredible journey into the world of plants. For every seedling that sprouts, growing is a race for the light. Remarkable time-lapse photography reveals how new leaves fight for a place in the sun and infant vines scramble to be the first into the forest canopy. For leaves are the ingenious factories where plants make all their food, but they are also under constant attack from animals large and small. So with spines, stings, poisons and dramatic disappearing tricks, plants work to defend themselves. Some change their leaves into gruesome traps, and so turn the tables on animals and eat them instead!
Flowering
David Attenborough's incredible journey into the world of plants. Flowers are the most eye-catching feature of plants, but they are really there for only one thing - sex. In order to procreate, a male seed fromone flower must be carried to the female parts of another. Flashy colours and lurid perfumes entice a host of animal couriers to collect their rewards. Yet when it comes to attracting pollinators some flowers can be very deceitful.
The Social Struggle
David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary battles for survival that are fought in the plant world.
Cameras reveal how plants use every trick in the book in a bid to come out on top, from growing at different rates to courting and even capitalising on disaster, whether it be hurricanes, fire or being eaten by animals.
Living Together
David Attenborough looks at how plants often rely on animals, fungi and each other for food, protection or a home, but they do not always co-exist peacefully.
Surviving
Plants live everywhere - from the coldest Arctic wastes to the driest, hottest deserts. To do so they have invented an amazing variety of ingenious survival techniques. Dramatic timelapse sequences reveal giant water lilies rampaging across the Amazon mangroves that care for their babies, and plants on a mysterious mountain in South America that survive only by devouring animals. To keep warm, Arctic poppies track the sun like mini radar dishes, while on Mt Kenya groundsels draw thick duvets over their delicate buds each night to keep out the frost.
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