Prog 13 of 19:ELM:An elegy for a tree which has largely vanished from the British Countryside due to the effects of Dutch Elm Disease.

Prog 8 of 19:THE PANSY: An unassuming wild plant that has been taken into the heart of the modern garden.

Prog 19 of 19:YEW:A tree vastly older than we are,an ancient religeous symbol,the elder statesman of the British flora.

Programme about the Oxford ragwort, a plant introduced from Italy which has spread itself widely following railway lines.

Prog 12 of 19:BRAMBLE:A grasping, common weed, but the last wild harvest of the hedgerow, the last myth of country life.

Prog 14 of 19:DANDELION:The wild and the genteel;the gardeners weed that was once made into dainty sandwiches for the tea-tables of Victorian gentry

SYCAMORE: responsible for sticky cars in summer and the wrong sort of leaves on the line!

Prog 15 of 19:HAWTHORN:May blossom heralds the arrival of spring, but the Hawthorn is the most strongly superstitious of all British flora

Prog 16 of 19:IVY:The classic Victorian gothic.Smothering,clinging,a plant of ruin and desolation. But a gothic plant with a practical streak

Prog 18 of 19:BLUEBELL:The colour and scent of late spring woodland, the master carpeter, Britain's great floral spectacular

The poppy - symbol of memory and war, and once believed to bring thunderstorms.

Prog 2 of 19:THE BUTTERFLY-BUSH:An oriental exotic the buddleja has become a common British weed but echos of it's oriental past still remain.

THISTLE: a spiky, persistent weed - but why did it become a symbol for a whole nation?

Prog 5 of 19:ROSEBAY WILLOWHERB:An elegant garden plant that has become a weed.It's appearance in 1941 on London bombsites symbolised victory over ruin

PROG 6 OF 19:WATERLILY:A beautiful plant with an odd and prosaic use - a cure for baldness

Prog 7 of 19:THE DOG ROSE.A wildflower that has been overshadowed by garden hybrids and given an ugly name.The floral cinderella,a much loved flower.

Prog 9 of 19:St JOHN'S WORT:A weed that was used in medieval times supposedly to increase the power of the sun - and now a cure for modern ills?

Prog 10 of 19:FOXGLOVE:A whimsical name that was given to a highly poisonous highly effective drug-producing plant, that is still a vital part of medicine

Prog 11 of 19:HENBANE:The most sinister of wildflowers, and the most misused Henbane was used by Dr Crippin.