Product Description

A guide to growing and caring for over 200 bizarre yet
beautiful insect-eating plants

Illustrated throughout with full-colour
photography, botanical line-drawings and diagrams

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128806 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Publisher
"A must for anyone interested and should be next to every carnivorous plant
grower’s
potting bench."

Alistair Pearce South West Carnivorous Plants

From the Inside Flap
Adrian Slack brings world-class skill to choosing, growing, propogating and
enjoying bizarre and beautiful insect eating plants.Although well-known
favourites such as the Venus Fly trap set the scene, the author divulges
techniques and tips on how to grow and nurture carnivorous plants of all
descriptions, advising on light, heat, situation, watering, pests and
diseases and illustrating the text with his own elegant drawings,
complemented by colour photography.

First published as Insect Eating Plants and How to Grow Them, the original
guide, became essential reading for enthusiasts, nurseries and botantical
gardens. Now back in print, Adrian Slack’s unique approach on over 200
species from 15 genera has been specially re-designed and reproduced in
full colour.

From the Back Cover
How to grow some of the most unusual subjects in the plant kingdom

Drosera . Sarracenia . Darlingtonia . Heliamphora . Drosphyllum . Byblis .
Triphyophyllum . Pinguicula . Genlisea . Utricularia . Polypompholyx .
Aldrovanda . Nepentheses . Cephalotus

Customer Reviews

How to look after Insect Eating Plants.
I read a couple of reviews about this book and it is really excellent! It tells you everything you need to know about the plants and the various ways of providing each one with the correct conditions for it's survival. A lot of the books on offer were really expensive and probably for expert growers, however, this one is now my bible for successful growing.

Slack's 1986 classic is back . . .
"Insect-Eating Plants and How to Grow Them" from 1986 was Adrian Slack's finest work on carnivorous plants and among the best ever printed -- and a companion piece to his coffee-table overview, "Carnivorous Plants" . . .

"Insect Eaters" is virtually a duplication of that long out-of-print first title, one often selling for well over US 100.00 on retail and auction sites, including Amazon. Having had both books, I could find no significant difference between them whatsoever. Even the photographs were duplicated . . .