A Gardener’s Compendium
Volumes 1, 2, & 3 Teresa’s books now available on Amazon!
Digging, for most of us, means hands (or shovels) in the dirt, planting something, cultivating, or harvesting. Teresa Watkins, garden designer, radio host, author, and instructor, has spent hours and hours on a different kind of digging and all of her effort has unearthed quite a harvest.
If you’re hungry for fully researched and cited gardening quotes — with associated hashtags — designed for immediate use in social media, newsletters, and emails, Teresa’s latest book, A Gardener’s Compendium Volume 3, Gardening with The Senses: Gardening in a Twitter World in 140 Characters or More is sure to satisfy.
Volume 3 opens with a selection of epigraphs, including “The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.” Hanna Rion Ver Beck (1875-1924), English painter and children’s book illustrator. The greatest gift of this book (and the entire Gardener’s Compendium series) might be the gift of time.
Written for gardening enthusiasts by a garden enthusiast and botanical bibliophile, this book is so much more than a collection of quotes. The accurate attributions and searched hashtags paired with every selected passage make the entire series a time-saving marketing resource for creating social media posts and other communications materials. A Gardener’s Compendium Volume 3: Gardening with the Senses is the perfect addition to the promotional tool kit for all types of horticulture professionals, from garden writers and bloggers to garden designers to speakers and teachers. Every garden communicator and horticulture marketing professional needs a copy of this series on their desk.
Here’s just one example of one of the inspiring and useful quotes included in the book:
“One touch of Nature makes all the world kin.”
Ulysses
Greek Commander
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
English playwright, poet, actor
“Troilus and Cressida” (ca. 1602) England
#family #nature #play #theatre #tragedy
Gardening with the Senses is the ideal book for providing just the right phrase for a card or social post, and it's also entertaining and thought-provoking. It’s a perfect addition to any botanical gift shop or bookstore inventory, sure to delight the casual reader, trivia maven, and gardening aficionados, as will the first two books in this series of eight volumes. A Gardener’s Compendium, Volume 1: Gardening with Life and A Gardener’s Compendium, Volume 2: Gardening in Time and Place are also thorough compilations of garden anecdotes, facts, essays, poetry, and history.
A Gardener’s Compendium - Volume 3 Gardening with the Senses $27.99
A Gardener’s Compendium
Volume 1
A Gardener's Compendium: Gardening in a Twitter World In 140 Characters Or More is a collection of garden anecdotes, facts, history, poetry, quotes, and trivia categorized by context into themes and appropriate hashtags. A Gardener's Compendium is an invaluable resource for new gardeners, garden writers, bloggers, trivia fans, teachers, editors, researchers, social media enthusiasts, speakers, and anyone who desires to provide an interesting fact for presentations or is just looking for a source of like-minded inspiration.
A Gardener’s Compendium
Volume 2
A Gardener's Compendium - Volume 2 Gardening in Time and Place is the second in a series that was planned to be one book. Readers will travel the globe through the ages with Teresa's favorite garden selections on world geography and history, the United States, and politics. Whether you are a gardening enthusiast, casual reader, writer, or an avid bibliophile, you will find Teresa's choices entertaining, insightful, and possibly eye-opening as to the original sources of popular gardening anecdotes and quotes.
“How many senses can you name? Teresa Watkins discovers them all through great authors, poets, historians and just wonderful gardeners. And in Volume 3 – Gardening with the Senses she adds one more, Gardening with Sage or common sense sure to be a favorite. Experience anew the amazing world of plants as they stimulate the senses of scent, touch, sight, sound, and taste. Rediscover how the senses were perceived over hundreds of years fresh from the garden.
”
“5 Stars - Wonderful! As a lifetime gardener and landscape designer, this beautiful collection of cited quotes, poetry and stories immediately caught my interest. As I continued to read, I found it difficult to put the book down. Each work is categorized by theme so that the reader can go back and forth, making for a well-organized read. It is also a book you can read over and over again!”
“Gardening with the Senses is about people, any kind of people, gardeners or not, within the context of horticulture. I highly recommend this book and encourage you to get the previous editions. What a lovely gift a set of three would make for a gardener or garden communicator. ”
“If you’ve ever wondered whether those quotes you see on the Internet are real, correctly attributed or just made up, Teresa Watkins has the answer. She’s carefully researched hundreds of quotes related to gardening with the senses and arranged them in an order perfect for browsing and enjoying. This third volume in the series, A Gardener’s Compendium, would be a great addition to the library of any gardener or writer.”
“In A Gardener’s Compendium - Gardening with the Senses Teresa Watkins explores centuries of experiences of life intertwined with nature. This is an ideal break from the everyday and is a delightful book that you will want to keep nearby as a creative muse. ”
“A Gardener’s Compendium, Volume 3 (Well, really each volume of this nifty series) is essential for anyone writing about gardening. Packed full of quotes, stories, and poetry, it’s a wonderful source of inspiration and wisdom from centuries of botanical enthusiasts. I’d keep it handy just to flip through during lunch or when I have a few spare minutes at the end of the day. You never know what bit of a spark might be ignited by one of the phrases author Teresa Watkins has meticulously researched and selected. Keep your highlighter handy while you page through it!
”
Thoughts from a Reader
A Gardener’s Compendium, Volume One
“As a professional horticulture and arboriculture consultant with a library approaching 5,200 books related to the subjects of horticulture, botany, arboriculture and all things gardening I believe that I am just about the best person to review a book written with gardeners in mind.
I received an autographed copy of Teresa Watkins' A Gardener's Compendium Volume 1 Gardening with Life and sat down intending to flip through it and then, sometime in the future, begin reading it. Instead, I was drawn into this amazing work as if it was a cherished family photo album. Five hours later and I still hadn't put it down.
What reaches out from the pages most notably is the passion Watkins has for gardening, it's history and the cultural significance that making things grow has on all of our souls. Volume 1 Gardening With Life uses the works of an abundance of different literary icons that somehow flow together and presents a story all its own. The superb and ingenious linking of different poems forms a chain that carries the reader along a beautiful gardening path. Works from Hugo, Whitman, Emerson, Tennyson and many dozens of others who extol the value and human passion for making things grow bring this painstakingly indexed work to life.
I despaired as I read ever closer to the end. There should be more pages between the covers! With a reverent appreciation I closed the book having finished it in one sitting. As if the author anticipated my greed for more she has a six more volumes to offer. It is history. It is art. It filled gaps in my love for gardening that I never realized were there.”
Brian Eubanks
-Reno, Nevada
