Bottany - A Blooming History

Timothy finds out how the breakthroughs of botanist Carl Linnaeus and naturalist John Ray changed the variation in plants from a matter of religious faith to a scientific discipline. After Thomas Fairchild created the world's first man-made hybrid flower he ended setting botany a challenge to discover how plants breed and how they are related to each other.

Timothy attempts to explain why the process of photosynthesis in plants is vital to the survival of life on the plant. He aso takes a look at how the research of 17th-century botanists provided the foundations for scientists to discover the link between sunlight and plant growth.