num_pages: 336
description: 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."
language: English
title: The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
titlecomplete: The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
genres: Nature, Horticulture, Reference, Biology, Science, Plants, Nonfiction, Natural History, Gardening
ratings_count: 628
publisher: Ten Speed Press