CITY OF OAKLAND HAS CLOSED ALL CITY PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN AN ATTEMPT TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THE CORONA VIRUS 2019 (COVID-19). 

SO WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD OUR FANTASTIC SHOW AND SALE. 

BUT, IF YOU WERE LOOKING TO BUY SOME GREAT CYMBIDIUM AND OTHER ORCHIDS, I WILL BE UPDATING A NEW PAGE HERE ON WHERE TO BUY ORCHIDS LOCALLY!

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Normally, This is one of the Best Cymbidium Orchid Displays in the San Francisco Bay Area .... and right after our Sensational Display at the Pacific Orchid Exposition in San Francisco in February!  

Come see the Experts Demonstrate to You how to Divide and Repot your Cymbidium Orchid Plants!

Inexpensive Raffle Tickets can be purchased for Gorgeous Orchid Plants! 

See Photos of Past Shows

     How to Prepare your Orchids for                   Exhibition               

by Nancy Starr 

February is the time to start thinking about prepping your plants for display. When a plant has been cleaned up it just expresses its beauty more.

A plant just seems to “show off” when it has been fussed with. Judges like to see clean backbulbs and no dead or broken leaves . It is absolutely essential that the plant be “bug- less” and disease free to be accepted.When presenting your entry please put the pot in a decorative or clean cache pot. Moss is always a nice touch, but isn’t completely necessary.

Show Plant Registration forms will be provided on Friday (if you have multiple plant entries, a list with all their names and parents names will help speed the regristration process). 

You can download Sales Forms for your sales plants on our website, by clicking here.  Please use these forms for your plants. Members are responsible for filling out their own lists and labels.  Your label MUST have a part taped to the pot and a part that can be kept for an accurate reconciliation with your plant list.  

Check out your babies and tidy up any that are in bloom and show them to the judges 

by Nancy Starr 

Volunteers are always needed to “make it happen.” Security, plant hotel, setup/takedown, judging, divisions, raffle table…the list is long.  We have been very fortunate to have a solid core of dedicated members who always step up and make the event a success and I hope you will continue to do so. 

One easy way to help is to take a handful of postcards (which will be available at the meeting) and leave them with businesses where you trade. Newspaper ads are too costly and we MUST rely on alternate ways to get the word out.

If anyone is on Facebook, Twitter, etc. we would appreciate your sharing our orchid event on your wall!  Friend Us!

 Show Times; Exhibitor Rules & Categories

Ribbon & Judging Categories 

Sales Forms 

Show & Sale Set Up & Proceedures           

Friday, April 3, 2020, Set Up Day                                

12 noon - 6 pm, Plant Set Up.  Entries, Volunteers report for set up in the show & vendor rooms.              6:01 pm, Ribbon Judging. If you signed up at the meeting & would like to be on the ribbon judging crew, report to the Judging Chair by 5:45 pm.                             6:30 pm, Cymbidium Orchid Floral Arrangements & Art entries are to be finished by this time, and will be judged at 7 pm

Saturday-Sunday, April 4 & 5, 2020, Show & Sale Days        

9 am – 4 pm, Volunteers report to your chairpersons for your shifts in Security, Plant Hotel, Plant Sales, etc.  

ANY QUESTIONS OR TO VOLUNTEER, LEAVE MESSAGES FOR SHOW CHAIR PERSONS

Jim Donoso at 415.342.1075 or

 Ed McLean at 510.406.1807-.