Peter D'Amato

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| name = Peter D'Amato

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1954|4|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bronx, New York

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|6|26|1954|4|4}}

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| nationality = American

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| occupation = Horticulturalist, author

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| known_for = His expert knowledge on keeping carnivorous plants in cultivation, and his nursery, California Carnivores.

| notable_works = The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

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Peter D'Amato (4 April 1954 – 26 June 2024){{cite journal |last1=Collingsworth |first1=Damon |last2= |first2= |date=June 2025 |title=Peter D'Amato |url= |journal=Carnivorous Plant Newsletter |volume=54 |issue=2 |publisher=International Carnivorous Plant Society |pages=44-55 |doi=10.55360/cpn542.dc312 |access-date=2025-05-28}} was an American author, businessman, and horticulturist specialising in carnivorous plants. He was the owner of California Carnivores, located in Sebastopol, possibly the largest nursery of carnivorous plants in the world, and the author of The Savage Garden (published 1998), a book on the cultivation of insectivorous plants.Snyder, G. 1998. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/10/30/NB92000.DTL Savage Garden: Carnivorous plants fill Sonoma County greenhouse with bizarre beauty]. San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 1998.Lee, L. 2002. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/25/NB125734.DTL Sonoma's little shop of horrors: The world's largest public collection of carnivorous botanicals lurks in Sebastopol]. San Francisco Chronicle, October 25, 2002.Coffey, G. 2002. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/06/HO47251.DTL Weird world of the bug eaters: Carnivorous plants nibble at gardeners' sense of curiosity]. San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2002.Van Cleef, L. 2004. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/07/21/greeng.DTL The Savage Garden]. San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2004.Yollin, P. 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/04/BAG79PL5F91.DTL Garden of savage delights: Carnivorous plant show comes to Golden Gate Park]. San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 2007.Eaton, J. & R. Sullivan 2010. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/14/DD0D1DJRRE.DTL Snared by a taste for carnivorous plant life]. San Francisco Chronicle, July 14, 2010. His book won the American Horticultural Society Book Award and the Quill & Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America, both in 1999.D'Amato, P. 1998. The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California.