The Private Life of Plants

Overview

Without plants, there would be no food, no animals of any sort, no life on earth at all. Yet for most of the time their lives remain a secret to us, hidden, private events.The reason is merely a difference of time. Plants live on a different time-scale from ours. Though not obviously to the naked eye, they are constantly on the move: developing, fighting, avoiding or exploiting predators or neighbours, struggling to find food, to increase their territories, to reproduce themselves, to find and hold a place in the sun. We only need to learn to look.

Details

Status

Ended

First aired

January 5, 1995

Last aired

February 9, 1995

Episodes

6

Network

BBC Two

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, Hungarian

Creator

David Attenborough

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt0123360