Seeds and Bulbs

Some plants begin as seeds.
Seeds start inside the flowers of a plant.

The seeds start to grow when the flower is touched by pollen from another flower of the same kind. Pollen is a yellow powder inside the flower.

Bees and other insects carry the pollen from flower to flower.

When the flower dies, the seeds keep growing inside pods or fruit of the plant.

The seeds are scattered by the plant and when the seeds fall to the ground, new plants grow.

The wind scatters the seeds of some plants.

Some birds, insects and animals spread seeds.

People can buy seeds in a packet and plant them in a garden. When they start to grow, they are called seedlings.

Some plants begin as bulbs.

Bulbs look a bit like onions.

In autumn the bulb begins to grow under the ground.

In spring, a green shoot starts to poke through the top of the bulb. It gets bigger and bigger and leaves start to show.

A flower stem grows. The bud at the end of the stem is closed tight.

As the weather gets warmer, the bud opens and the flower can be seen.