The Auction / Potluck Dinner is held at the Lakeside Garden Center, next to Lake Merrit, 666 Bellevue Drive, Oakland, CA 94606.  The Auction starts right after the dinner and Installation of Officers.  

If you have never attended this Auction, you will be surprised at the high caliber and quality of the orchid plants offered or bidding.  If you are coming early for the dinner, please bring a dinner dish to share with others (as well as boxes & your checkbook)! 

Virus Test Kits will be available for you to test BEFORE you BID !! Buyer should CAREFULLY, PHYSICALLY EXAM THE PLANT(S) THEY HAVE AN INTEREST IN, PRIOR TO BIDDING & PURCHASE since, as in all auctions, ALL AUCTION SALES ARE FINAL. Any questions, please contact text Audrey Young-Tarter at 408.316.0677.   

To VIRUS TEST WITH YOUR OWN TEST KIT: Buyers are allowed to virus test a plant in question, with Audrey, the  Virus Test Kit Lady present.  Make sure you contact her at the meeting & get permission, PRIOR to slicing and dicing into any plant. 

Buyer may use their own materials: they should bring their own NEW,Un-used plastic gloves; NEW, PAPER SHEATHED, Un-used Single Edge Razor Blades; and New, Unopened, Recent Virus Test Kits Purchased No Earlier than FEBRUARY 2018.  A buyer must show their materials to Audrey, prior to taking a plant aside to test a leaf.

VIRUS TEST KITS AVAILABLE:  Should anyone forget their own test kits, Audrey will have 5 test kits available for sale.  She sells them at her cost from Agdia Labs, now $5.50 each (new Gloves & Razors, are included at Audrey's own expense).  

You will be so charmed by the plants, the members and the comraderie, that you may wish to Join and Become a New Member. 

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Members,click here for Donation Forms & Tags 

6:00 pm, Start Set Up,   Everyone will place their donation plants on the Plant table and their potluck food on the food table as they come in. Place your "Secret Santa" Gifts on the Gift Exchange side table.   Bidders go get registered to get their numbered paddle. No paddle, no bidding.  (And, no,not everyone can get Paddle "8"!)

6:30 pm, Dinner starts, Everyone dig in; mingle, and visit with other people at the other tables! 

7:15 pm, Short talk about Club business; We'll call your lottery ticket numbers for the gift exchange table!

7:30 pm, Auction Begins

While we do have a partial list of Auction Plants (see below, right), we never have ALL of them, because people just bring their plants in at the last minute.  We just wing it.

After bidding, a runner generally takes the plant back to the winning bidder's chair, and the paddle # & winning bid is announced. 

After the last plant is announced, the bidders take their paddles to the Auction treasurer's and wait patiently while they take a little stretch, a potty break, and come back to collate the plant prices.