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The Savage Garden- Just about everyone is 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 carnivourous 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. How 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." 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.