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Earth's Garden - Season 1

Plant's That Heal

Series: Earth's Garden

3.9

(18)

Episodes

Rating

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

FilmRise

About

Plants are essential to human life - they give us shelter, food, clothing and even medicine. Writer and horticulturalist Ken Beattie travels the world to gather information for his new book "The Earth's Garden," exploring the relationships between people and plants.

Related Subjects

Educational

Episodes

1. Growing A Cure

22m

Ken Beattie travels to the South Pacific, where he meets people whose lives have been enhanced by the healing plants that grow in these tropical paradises.

2. The Image Of Plants

22m

Ken visits Holland and Italy, home of the tulip and the olive tree respectively, to learn how depictions of these romantic plants have influenced the hearts - and the pocket books - of the people there.

3. The Roots Of Culture

22m

Ken discovers the intimate relationship between the people of Malaysia and the stinky Durian fruit, as well as the passion Cook Islanders have for Taro.

4. Kew Gardens

22m

In this episode, Ken enters the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to find the some of the world's oldest, biggest, and strangest plants - frozen in time for future use.

5. Perfume

22m

Ken looks back to ancient Egypt, tracing the history of perfume from the time of the pharaohs to the modern day.

6. Survival Tracks

22m

Ken journeys to Australia to witness a recently discovered clutch of 65 million-year-old Jurassic plants.