The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

The Savage Garden:
Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
Cover of first edition, showing a Sarracenia
AuthorPeter D'Amato
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTen Speed Press
Publication date
May 1, 1998
(reprinted in 2004)
July 2, 2013 (revised edition)
Media typePrint (softcover)
Pagesxxii + 314 (first edition)
x + 374 (revised edition)
ISBN0-89815-915-6
OCLC473718060
Cover of the revised edition.

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,[1][2] and reprinted in 2004.[3] A revised edition was released in July 2013.[4][5][6]

The book won the American Horticultural Society Annual Book Award[7] 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"[8][9][10] and had sold 25,000 copies as of 2002.[11]

  1. ^ D'Amato, P. 1998. The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley.
  2. ^ The savage garden : cultivating carnivorous plants. WorldCat.
  3. ^ Formats and editions of The savage garden : cultivating carnivorous plants. WorldCat.
  4. ^ Review: The Savage Garden Revised: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D’Amato. Texas Triffid Ranch.
  5. ^ Mey, F.S. 2014. The Savage Garden by Peter D'Amato, revised. Strange Fruits: A Garden's Chronicle, February 3, 2014.
  6. ^ The savage garden : cultivating carnivorous plants. WorldCat.
  7. ^ 1999 AHS Book Awards. American Horticultural Society.
  8. ^ Van Cleef, L. 2002. Animal-Eating Plants: Carnivorous-plant growing tips from a local expert. San Francisco Chronicle, February 6, 2002.
  9. ^ Coffey, G. 2002. Weird world of the bug eaters: Carnivorous plants nibble at gardeners' sense of curiosity. San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2002.
  10. ^ Van Cleef, L. 2004. The Savage Garden. San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2004.
  11. ^ Lee, L. 2002. Sonoma's little shop of horrors: The world's largest public collection of carnivorous botanicals lurks in Sebastopol. San Francisco Chronicle, October 25, 2002.