The Private Life of Plants

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.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	The Private Life of Plants
First Air Date	January 5, 1995
Last Air Date	February 9, 1995
Seasons	1
Episodes	6
Episode Runtime	50min
Language	English, Hungarian
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom
Production Companies	BBC
Networks	BBC Two

S01E06

Surviving

David Attenborough reaches the climax of his journey into the world of plants. The final programme looks at the amazing variety of ingenious techniques plants have invented to survive even the coldest Arctic wastes and the driest, hottest deserts. Time-lapse sequences reveal giant water lilies rampaging across the Amazon, mangroves that care for their babies, and plants that survive only by devouring animals.

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