The Private Life of Plants

and I liked the Rafflesia parasite.

When you look at the accelerated growth of plants, this harmonious, graceful dance is striking. But when you show how a plant strives for its goal, it's hard to believe that it's not an intelligent creature that does it purposefully.
Mushrooms with their spores are incredible) A huge field of dandelions, releasing seeds, is so beautiful! And the flight is a liana seed, an ash seed...How beautiful and how insect-like it is!!!
A rabid cucumber, a Himalayan nedotroga, an acacia tree, whose leaves fold and fall from a couple of touches, wow!
I've never noticed how interesting and thoughtful plants are!

I never thought about how many millions of plants live in the forest, under dense tree crowns, in shadow and twilight, and how little sunlight they get.
The caterpillar, so creatively gnawing out the right leaf, is just lovely!

David Attenborough talks about the subtle skills and unusual abilities that plants use in different circumstances and at different stages of their lives. Nutrition and growth, flowering and reproduction, competition and cooperation.

Compared to animals, plants may seem much less alive, largely due to the fact that their purposeful movements are extremely subtle, due to the extremely low speed of these movements. But it's worth speeding them up, and the viewer opens up to an exciting active life filled with all kinds of events, reactions and actions, including intense battles with impressive examples of aggression and defense.

It was the accelerated shots that became the basis of the excellent video illustrations for Attenborough's story about the inconspicuous but amazing plant life. Forced to adapt to various external factors, from environmental changes to the effects of other living organisms, plants in the course of evolution have been able to develop diverse, effective and, often, amazing reaction mechanisms, methods of attack and defense, methods of counteraction and interaction. There is something to show and something to tell. The comments themselves are very sensible, competent and informative, with an abundance of interesting facts, including a comparison of different tactics and strategies of survival.

It turned out to be a high-quality, spectacular and informative, interesting and unexpectedly fascinating documentary series about seemingly such famous and even a little boring plants (and a little about mushrooms)). I recommend.

Language. Attenborough speaks very well. Correct and natural language, without overly complex expressions, with excellent pronunciation - clear, with precise intonation. However, you will need subtitles to understand the English names and terms.

What beautiful plants of the mountains, tiny flowers...And the huge meadows full of flowers? And I finally understood why they say "alpine slide"))) Flowers next to bones, there is so much beauty, depth, and wisdom of nature in this...A new life grows on the ruins of the old one.
The earth sheep is so cute)))
And the huntress is a bubblegum, a sundew, a giant water lily? Amazing!
I really agree with the last thought, I also just thought that plants can survive in the harshest conditions, but they are often powerless against humans. I thought they would show some threatening, terrifying consequences of human activity at the end, but I'm even glad they didn't. The whole series is virgin, untouched nature and nothing superfluous, no traces of civilization, that's better.