From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Have you ever grown a carnivorous plant, a venous fly trap or sundew or a pitcher plant

perhaps?

I bet even a lot of keen gardeners haven't.

Today's guest is going to encourage us to change that and maybe as a start, adopt one

that you can cultivate on your windowsill even.

All in time for International Carnivorous Plant Day on Wednesday, May 4th, we're also

going to learn about the plight of carnivorous plants in the wild, where they're disproportionately

endangered, more in a moment but first these messages.

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Today we're talking carnivorous plants and my guest Kenny Cougan is a board member and

education director for the International Carnivorous Plant Society. Kenny's also author of the

recent book Florida's Carnivorous Plants and he operates a carnivorous Plant Society. Kenny's also author of the recent book,

Florida's Carnivorous Plants,

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