The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
Cover of first edition, showing a Sarracenia | |
| Author | Peter D'Amato |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Publication date | May 1, 1998 (reprinted in 2004) July 2, 2013 (revised edition) |
| Media type | Print (softcover) |
| Pages | xxii + 314 (first edition) x + 374 (revised edition) |
| ISBN | 0-89815-915-6 |
| OCLC | 473718060 |
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The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants is a carnivorous plant cultivation guide by Peter D'Amato, horticulturist and owner of California Carnivores nursery. It was originally published in 1998 by Ten Speed Press, and reprinted in 2004. A revised edition was released in July 2013.
The book won the American Horticultural Society Annual Book Award and the Quill & Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America, both in 1999. It has been called "the carnivorous-plant grower's bible" and had sold 25,000 copies as of 2002.