- Title: Plant Life Flowers To Seed
- Date: 5th November 1993
- Summary: THE FLOWERING PLANT'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL BEGINS BY ADVERTISING ITS PRESENCE TO ATTRACT A POLLINATOR AND ENDS WITH THE FERTILISATION AND GERMINATION OF A SEED. THE PETAL'S COLOUR PATTERNS GUIDE INSECTS TO THEIR REWARD OF NECTAR PAST THE FLOWER'S REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. BUT THE FLOWERS GLORY IS SHORT LIVED. HAVING BEEN POLLINATED, THE FRAGILE FLORAL PARTS WITHER AND FALL AWAY AND THE PLANT FOCUSES ITS RESOURCES ON THE SEED. SOME SEEDS CAN SURVIVE FOR LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE GERMINATING. FEATURING SEQUENCES WITH COMMERCIAL PLANT GROWERS AND THE HEAD GARDENER OF ONE OF THE GREAT GARDENS OF IRELAND, THIS PROGRAMME LOOKS AT THE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY PLANTS IN THEIR DETERMINATION TO REPRODUCE.
- Description:BOTANICAL MYSTERIES OF PLANT LIFE REVEALED.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Flashback Television Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 3
- Transmission Date:05/11/1993
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s