Kingdom of Plants with David Attenborough

2012 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
4.5
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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 Life In The Wet Zone
10/21/12
Season-only
David begins his journey inside the magnificent Palm House, a unique global rainforest in London. David discovers clues to answer a question that even had Charles Darwin stumped: how did flowering plants evolve so fast to go on to colonise the entire planet so successfully?
2 Solving the Secrets
10/28/12
Season-only
David Attenborough begins this episode with the secret world of plant movement and uses sinister carnivorous plants to show just how active plants can be.
3 Survival
11/4/12
Season-only
In this final episode David Attenborough discovers the plants that have evolved to shed their dependency on water enabling them to survive in the driest environments.

About this show

In this sensational new series, shot over the course of a year, David Attenborough uses the latest time-lapse and macro photography filming to reveal a wholly unseen dimension in the lives of plants, from the most bizarre to the most beautiful. David traces plants from their beginnings on land to their vital place in nature today, exposing new revelations along the way. He moves from our time scale to theirs, revealing the true nature of plants as creatures that are every bit as dynamic and aggressive as animals. And he does all this in one unique place, a microcosm of the whole plant world where some 90% of all known plant species are represented: The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. This spectacular adventure through the Kingdom of Plants is so immersive and compelling it has the capacity to amaze even the least green-fingered.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
2 reviews