The Secret Life of Trees Season 1 Episode 3 - Old Age

Airdate: 2025-Aug-07

Episode summary:

The concluding episode reveals how trees can extend their lives by 'walking' across the land and planting new roots. Plus, how they can 'learn' from trauma, and how a decaying tree has the miraculous ability to nurture new life. In Scotland, Tony Kirkham explores a magical collection of Yews - the UK's longest living trees. He also explores a grove of Monkey Puzzle trees, and explains that the unusual, scale-like leaves of this prickly species are an adaptation to protect it from hungry dinosaurs.

About The Secret Life of Trees series:

Narrated by Michael Palin, this fascinating series follows the incredible lives of trees – from their beginning as tiny seeds through to magn...Show more >