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The Secret Life of Trees Network: Channel 5, My 5 (UK) Season One, Episode 1 The Early Years Aired: July 25, 2025 (United Kingdom) 46 min | Nature Documentary | TV Series (2025 - now) (ENG/SUB ENG) Narrated by Michael Palin, this fascinating series follows the incredible lives of trees – from their beginning as tiny seeds through to magnificent giants and into old age, revealing the secrets of how they communicate, how they drink and even how some of the three trillion trees on our planet are as old as the pyramids. Season 1, Episode 01 – “The Early Years” We begin with the tallest trees on earth, the towering redwoods, which can stand as high as 115 metres, taller than the Statue of Liberty. Even these mighty giants start life as a seed just a few millimetres long. For many trees, the creation of new life starts with one of the most dramatic displays in the natural world: blossom. To learn how seeds are actually made, we travel to a beautiful elderflower orchard blanketed by hundreds of thousands of tiny white flowers, to learn that blossom is crucial to a tree ‘having sex’. And once a seed is formed, it uses ingenious ways, like the spiraling sycamore helicopter seed, to travel far from the parent tree. And then from the bare soil a brand-new tree will begin to grow. #Channel5 #My5 #Nature@zdenek1964 #TheSecretLifeofTrees #Documentary #MichaelPalin@zdenek1964
