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The Savage Garden:

Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
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Ten Speed Press, May 1, 1998 - Gardening - 314 pages
Just about everyone's familiar with the Venus flytrap...but did you know that there are pitcher plants that can-and do!-digest an entire rat? Or that there are several hundred species of carnivorous plants on our planet? Full-color photographs of the plants at work and play, plus everything you need to know to successfully grow your own Little Shop of Horrors.Awards1999 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner ReviewsHow to get kids interested in gardening? The San Francisco Chronicle recommends The Savage Garden, "because there's nothing children like better than catching insects and feeding them to their houseplants."

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Review: The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

User Review  - Lee - Goodreads

This book is AWESOME cuz it actually tells u how to grow the plants instead of telling u about them. Read full review

Review: The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

User Review  - Carl Leach - Goodreads

An excellent, informative book. It would make a very good read for anyone who is just starting in the hobby of growing carnivorous plants as well as for those who are already experienced. I'm looking forward to the revised edition being released in 2013. Read full review

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of the Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants, which won the. American Horticultural Society’s Book Award, and is in its sixth printing. ...
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California Carnivores: Testimonials
The largest carnivorous plant nursery and store in the United States
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Sarracenia pitcher plant named ‘Redbug’ - Patent PP13412
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About the author (1998)

Peter D'Amato has been growing flesh-eating plants for over thirty years. His nursery, California Carnivores, houses the world's largest collection of carnivorous plants. THE SAVAGE GARDEN is the 1999 winner of the American Horticultural Society Book Award and 1999 Quill & Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.

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TitleThe Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
AuthorPeter D'Amato
Editionillustrated
PublisherTen Speed Press, 1998
ISBN0898159156, 9780898159158
Length314 pages
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