“The Private Life of Plants” isn't as spectacular as
David Attenborough's later foray into the kingdom of Plantae and Fungi,
“Kingdom of Plants 3D”, but that's mostly a function of the camera technology.
Otherwise, all the bizarre stuff is here: 500 year old strangler figs, the
Venus fly trap, the pitcher plant, the giant water lily, or the perfectly
ordinary bramble – ordinary, that is, until you film it with time-lapse
photography, revealing that the bramble bush is about as aggressive as an
expansive human empire…
Somehow, I got even more paranoid about the houseplants surrounding me as we speak, after watching clips from this six-part series! As a kid, I assumed that plants were boring and somehow “girlie”, but it seems they are just as cool as sharks or mountain lions, ha ha.
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