Find out when The Green Planet is on TV today, tonight and this week at the UK TV Listings Guide.
The Green Planet is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):
David Attenborough presents a guide to the lives of plants in environments around the world, beginning with the plant battlegrounds of the tropical rainforests. New filming techniques allow viewers to enter the plants' world and see it from their perspective, and on their timescale. Featuring fast-growing trees, flowers that mimic dead animals, and life and death battles to absorb much-needed sunlight
More details for The Green Planet, Sat 11, 2:00 pm
David Attenborough presents a guide to the world of plants that grow in water, including a bubbling river in Brazil, where the plants have created their own atmosphere and a lake smothered in brightly-coloured flowers. Plus, plants that fight each other for growing space or use natural adhesives to prevent themselves being swept downstream, and a look at the methods used to evade or even attack animals
More details for The Green Planet, Sat 11, 3:00 pm
The strategy, deception and feats of engineering plants use to thrive in the changing weather of different seasons. In the face of conditions ranging from ice and snow to raging fires, survival is often a question of perfect timing - particularly when contending with intense competition and surprising predators
More details for The Green Planet, Sat 11, 4:00 pm
Plants that have developed to thrive in the desert, including cacti that grow in the shade of other trees and collect water in pleated trunks that expand and contract - but can also find themselves a host to other plants, like desert mistletoe. The programme also reveals how tobacco plants being eaten by caterpillars are able to summon the creatures' natural predators, and how tumbleweeds roll across the landscape, only unfurling and growing when they encounter rain
More details for The Green Planet, Sat 11, 5:00 pm
A guide to plants that thrive in human-dominated environments, including trees that grow across canyons in India, which have developed into living bridges. The programme examines the origins of growing crops and the ongoing influence on the world of wild plants, as well as efforts to preserve species, from snipers firing pesticide bullets from helicopters to fend off invasive plants to plants being painstakingly pollinated using a paintbrush
More details for The Green Planet, Sat 11, 6:00 pm
Plants that have developed to thrive in the desert, including cacti that grow in the shade of other trees and collect water in pleated trunks that expand and contract - but can also find themselves a host to other plants, like desert mistletoe. The programme also reveals how tobacco plants being eaten by caterpillars are able to summon the creatures' natural predators, and how tumbleweeds roll across the landscape, only unfurling and growing when they encounter rain
More details for The Green Planet, Sun 12, 12:00 pm
A guide to plants that thrive in human-dominated environments, including trees that grow across canyons in India, which have developed into living bridges. The programme examines the origins of growing crops and the ongoing influence on the world of wild plants, as well as efforts to preserve species, from snipers firing pesticide bullets from helicopters to fend off invasive plants to plants being painstakingly pollinated using a paintbrush
More details for The Green Planet, Sun 12, 1:00 pm