What is Reddit's opinion of The Savage Garden, Revised: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants?

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Stink bugs are not their natural most common prey, but they wont be exempt from turning into snacks. Give your plants time and those conditions described above. For the future: read Savage Garden, its a great source of information and will answer all your questions. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607744104/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Look into dormancy in the winter. You may need to add layers of protection, like wood chips over your plants if your winters are harsher than the ones they usually experience. You have time obviously to look into this.

Most carn. plants need a lot of water (tray method) and lots of light. Depending on your USDA zone you can keep them outside. I have flytraps, sarracenias and some sundews in my garden all year round. In winter they are not pretty but in summer they thrive. Try to get a copy of this book the Savage Garden. It has a much info. Lots of love for the plants and 'learn as you go' worked for me.

Definitely get the book, The Savage Garden. http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Garden-Revised-Cultivating-Carnivorous/dp/1607744104

I cannot stress how immensely helpful this book is for any new grower. For your area, I suggest Sarracenia Purpurea, Drosera Rotundifolia, and Venus Flytraps. If you cover them in the winter, they should do well outside. For indoor starter plants, I suggest Drosera Capensis, Pinguicula x Gina (thing is a freaking tank, I've seen one last 2 months without water, even capensis isn't that hardy!), and Pygmy Sundews. The first two are very specific and are usually $10 + shipping, however pygmies are cheap (around $3). If you can keep a pygmy alive, you're ready to move up to the big leagues. Nepenthes Ventricosa is a great starter nepenthes. If you can comfortably keep a nepenthes and have it pitcher, you're good to keep some cephalotus. Just make a humidity dome out of two plastic cups and put a paper towel wick coming out of the bottom. With a little stand and water in the bottom, this set up will keep cephalotus very happy. If you manage to keep cephalotus alive, start looking into Cobra Lilies and Heliamphora. They're hard to keep, but if you keep the roots cold, they end up being very rewarding.

Absolutely! Check out r/SavageGarden, as well as The Savage Garden by Peter D’Amato of California Carnivores (which is also an excellent resource for purchasing carnivorous plants).

If you’re looking for outdoor carnivores, Venus flytraps are excellent beginner plants! As are many Sarracenia (the North American pitcher plants), particularly Sarracenia purpurea. They all need dormancy, and you can keep them outdoors year round in most of the U.S.

As for windowsill plants, some of the Mexican Pinguicula or the tropical sundews (Drosera)—particularly Drosera capensis—are very easy keepers! The Pinguicula are very cool because they’re succulents during their winter dormancy, which is triggered by drier substrate, and sundews don’t require any dormancy at all.

VFTs and Sarracenia need to be grown outdoors, so if you're looking for something to keep indoors, you should look at pinguicula, nepenthes, and sundews that do not require a dormancy period. This includes species like drosera capensis and some of the rosetted drosera like tokaiensis and spatulata. Make sure that whatever you choose for indoors does not require dormancy.

If she's interested in carnivorous plants, I highly recommend getting her Savage Garden, which has great pics and info on everything out there along with its care regimen.

https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Garden-Revised-Cultivating-Carnivorous/dp/1607744104

There are lots of great carnivorous plant websites out there!

One of my favorites is California Carnivores: https://www.californiacarnivores.com

r/savagegarden also maintains a list of vendors: https://www.reddit.com/r/SavageGarden/wiki/links/nurseries

Possibly related to https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Peter-DAmato/dp/1607744104/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1HP3LGH0PNCWG&keywords=the+savage+garden&qid=1651412737&sprefix=the+savage+garden%2Caps%2C149&sr=8-1 , a well known book about carnivorous plants in the hobby.

Read the book and replace your negative connotation with a positive one.

Haha nah it's named after the magnum opus carnivorous plant care book written by Peter D'Amato :)

Which cultivar? If you haven't yet get https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Garden-Revised-Cultivating-Carnivorous/dp/1607744104

Did you get them from here? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Savage-Garden-Revised-Cultivating-Carnivorous/dp/1607744104/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431806131&sr=8-2&keywords=carnivorous+plants

Thank you sir. The one on the website looks like what they have on the "Original cover" the revised edition currently being sold has a photo that looks different, especially the lid of the pitcher, are these the same? Original cover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savage_Garden:_Cultivating_Carnivorous_Plants revised edition: http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Garden-Revised-Cultivating-Carnivorous/dp/1607744104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431624268&sr=8-1&keywords=savage+garden+book I might need to ask them after all, however it does seem funny to me that no one knows, when most people on here (myself included) probably own the book. Anyway I emailed them and will post the reply to this thread when/if I get one.