Insect Eaters: How to Grow and Feed Extraordinary Plants - Softcover

Slack, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899296301 ISBN 13: 9781899296309

Publisher: Alphabet and Image Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

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

About this title

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

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alphabet and Image Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899296301
• ISBN 13: 9781899296309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192