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Tag: Daryl Beyers

  • Saturday, February 26, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm – Clean Composting, Online

    Compost is the answer to most soil problems, such as compaction, poor water-holding ability and low fertility. In this Berkshire Botanical Garden online class on February 26 at 12:30 pm with instructor Daryl Beyers, students will discover why compost is the key to gardening sustainably and how to use it effectively to improve their garden ground to grow healthy plants. Learn the basics of composting and the techniques to create your own compost at home, using bins, tumblers, heaps or pits or directly on garden beds. Daryl Beyers is the author of The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything you need to know to grow a beautiful and bountiful garden, available from Timber Press. As gardening certificate program coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden, he helps guide the program’s curriculum and teaches popular gardening classes. Daryl has more than twenty-five years of professional landscaping experience, specializing in residential garden design and development. As a staff writer, photographer and editor for Fine Gardening magazine, he authored two special issues on garden design and served as a contributing garden editor for Martha Stewart Living. His articles on gardening and garden design have also appeared in Horticulture and HGTV Magazine.    Register at www.berkshirebotanical.org

  • Wednesdays, January 5 – February 9, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Fundamentals of Gardening, Online

    Explore the basic principles underlying successful, environmentally friendly gardening, including the structure and physiological processes of plants and their relationships to the settings in which they grow. Students learn not only what to do, but why. Topics include soils and their improvement, seed sowing, vegetative propagation, planting, pruning, watering, weeding, mulching, and disease and pest control. This online New York Botanical Garden class takes place January 5 – February 9 from 6 – 8, and is taught by Daryl Beyers. NYBG members $295, nonmembers $325. Register at www.nybg.org. Recommended text: The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, Daryl Beyers.

  • Saturdays, July 25 – August 29, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Fundamentals of Gardening Online

    Explore the basic principles underlying successful, environmentally friendly gardening, including the structure and physiological processes of plants and their relationships to the settings in which they grow. Students learn not only what to do, but why. Topics include soils and their improvement, seed sowing, vegetative propagation, planting, pruning, watering, weeding, mulching, and disease and pest control. This New York Botanical Garden online class takes place Saturdays, July 25 – August 29, 10 – noon, and is $325 ($295 for NYBG members). Register at https://www.enrole.com/nybg/jsp/session.jsp?sessionId=211GAR301GO&courseId=204GAR301O&categoryId=8AEA8481

    Recommended Texts:
    The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, Daryl Beyers
    ISBN-13: 978-1604698749
    ISBN-10: 1604698748

    Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon
    ISBN-13: 978-1604690958
    ISBN-10: 160469095X

    Start with the Soil, Grace Gershuny
    ISBN-13: 978-0875966977
    ISBN-10: 0875966977

    Plant Propagator’s Bible, Miranda Smith
    ISBN-13: 978-1594864483
    ISBN-10: 1594864489

    Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning, Cass Turnbull
    ISBN-13: 978-1570617515
    ISBN-10: 1570617511

  • Thursday, July 9, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – The New Gardener’s Handbook, Online

    On July 9 at 6:30 pm, enjoy an online Berkshire Botanical Garden lecture and Q&A session with author Daryl Beyers about his new book, The New Gardener’s Handbook, available for purchase through the BBG online shop. Novice or experienced, all gardeners learn something new every time they step into a garden to check on a plant, dig in the soil or harvest the fruits of their labor. Daryl Beyers, author of The New Gardener’s Handbook, shares the why-dos of the how-tos that help gardeners grow beautiful and bountiful gardens. Daryl will discuss the fundamentals of how plants grow, the importance of soil, how to sow seeds, watering and weeding. New gardeners will come away with a foundation to help their gardens flourish, and accomplished gardeners will learn expert insights and some new tips and tricks. Our Summer Author Series is presented in collaboration with Tower Hill Botanic Garden and Timber Press.    $10 for members of sponsoring organizations, $15 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/summer-author-series-daryl-beyers-new-gardeners-handbook-online

    Daryl Beyers is author of The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, available from Timber Press. As gardening certificate program coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden, Daryl helps guide the program’s curriculum and teaches the popular Fundamentals of Gardening course and courses on container gardening and garden design. He has more than 25 years of professional landscaping experience, specializing in residential garden design and development. As a staff writer, photographer and editor for Fine Gardening magazine, Daryl authored two special issues on garden design, and he served as contributing garden editor for Martha Stewart Living. His articles on gardening and garden design have also appeared in Horticulture and HGTV Magazine.