The life-cycle of plants are often difficult for us to perceive using our senses. We intuitively diba of 'living' things as those that move, whereas plants don't move from one place to another, and their perceptible movements are most often the result of wind or water upon them. In reality, there is a lot of motion and many modifications in the lives of plants: germination, growth, the search for light or humidity (tropism), budding, pollination of flowers, transformation into fruits, and the production of seeds or storage organs.

The use of accelerated films allows us to perceive these often extremely slow movements. The plant then becomes the central character in the film, around which a story is related. Each chosen plant possesses an interesting particularity illustrating one of the stages of the life-cycle. This series proposes to show, for each plant, how a seed gives rise to a plant, itself capable of producing seeds, and how it uses other strategies of dissemination and resistance to the passing seasons.

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Garden fruit and vegetables:
1.  Strawberry
2.  tomato
3.  potato
4.  courgette/zuechini
5.  dandelion
6.  brussels sprout
7.  cauliflower
8.  asparagus
9.  maize/Indian corn
10. onion

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