Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society

BACPS Plant Talks Alex Dietrick
2023-04-29 13:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
BACPS Plant Talks: Searching for Sundews in Madagascar with Alex Dietrick
Join the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society for another sundew filled Saturday at the Randall Museum on April 29.

Alex Dietrick will share photos of sundews and other carnivorous plants from a recent trip to Madagascar. In support of a book on Drosera in Africa, Alex visited Madagascar to find the two rarely observed endemics, Drosera humbertii & Drosera arachnoides. He’ll also give us a peek at a third, undescribed Drosera from the island, as well as some new Utricularia.

Alex’s talk begins at 2pm, and afterwards he’ll have several rare and obscure location specific African Drosera species for sale. Follow our Instagram @bacps_ or join BACPS Group on Facebook for a teaser of his plants for sale!

You can find Alex on Instagram at @insearchofspecies.

Want to sell or trade plants at the meeting?
Space is limited! Please email us at president@bacps.org to reserve a table

Annual Show & Sale 2023
2023-06-03 12:00 - 17:00 | Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, 1011 Chestnut St, Alameda, 94501, United States
Join the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society for a day of wicked cool plants! The event is FREE and open to the public and anyone can participate in all of the activities, including bringing display plants to be judged at the show and being a vendor.
This year’s show and sale will feature some of the best, biggest, and most talented carnivorous plant nurseries and hobbyist growers on the planet, bringing their plants for display and for sale at great prices! Follow us on Instagram and join our Facebook group for vendor sneak peeks!
Bring your beautiful plants for the show, and win great prizes! We encourage everyone to bring as many display specimens as possible to show. Prizes include highly coveted ribbons and gift cards from some of your favorite vendors!
Parents! This free event is great for families and kids of all ages! See some of the most beautiful and bizarre plants from around the world, grown perfectly and all in one place! This unique collection of hungry plants fascinates and engages our young ones; their imaginations go into overdrive and many wish to learn more about their world! We have many kids attending our meetings so feel free to bring them to those too.
Check out below for more info – and very importantly – we need volunteers!

Show & Sale Information

August Meetup
2023-08-26 12:00 - 15:00 | S27 Alehouse & Brewery, 461 Perrymont Ave, San Jose, CA, 95125, United States
Nepenthes Day at S27 Alehouse & Brewery
Can’t get enough Nepenthes? Can’t wait ’til September for Gianne’s tropical pitcher plant filled talk? Well, you’re in luck!
Join us on Saturday, August 26 at S27 Alehouse & Brewery in San Jose for a day filled with great company, food, drinks, and plants! This BACPS Pop Up Meeting will be highlighting Nepenthes. Bring your favorite plants to show to fellow members and plant lovers! Trades and sales welcomed! And, no, not just Nepenthes – all genera of carnivorous plants should attend – we just love looking at plants
The BACPS Pop Up Meetings at S27 Brewery are some of our most popular events. Come join us and other carnivorous plant enthusiast for a day of amazing plants, company, food, and drinks!

BACPS Plant Talks
2023-09-16 13:00 - 16:30 | Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
BACPS Plant Talks: Trekking for Nepenthes in Borneo and Palawan with Gianne Souza

Join the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society (BACPS) for a dose of adventure and Nepenthes on Saturday September 16 at the Randall Museum. (And yes, Gianne and their crew did find a few other carnivorous plants as well!)
Gianne Souza will share photos and tales of adventure from their recent trip to the Borneo Rainforest and Palawan Island in search of Nepenthes. This Redfern Adventures expedition was led by naturalist Stewart McPherson and made possible with local guides Tham Yau Kong in Malaysia and Jehson Cervancia in the Philippines.
Gianne’s talk begins at 2pm, and afterwards they will have several Nepenthes species and hybrids for sale. For auction will be a well-established rooted cutting of the rare Leilani Nepenthes, Princess Mashed Potatoes, and also a large fresh top cutting of the famous Victorian hybrid x Dyeriana.
Follow our Instagram @bacps_ or join BACPS Group on Facebook for a teaser of their plants for sale!
You can find Gianne on Instagram at @NepenthesDiary and at their website NepenthesDiary.com.
Want to sell or trade plants at the meeting?

Space is limited! Please email us at president@bacps.org to reserve a table

December Meetup
2023-12-03 12:00 - 16:30 | Gilman Brewing Company, 912 Gilman St, Berkele, Berkeley, CA, 94710, United States
Pizza, Plants, Prizes, and Pie (and elections) at Gilman Brewing Company
Join us for an end of the year get together featuring pizza, plants, prizes, and pie!

The Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society’s End of Year meeting will be held on Sunday, December 3 at Gilman Brewery in Berkeley from 12-4:30pm. We’re serving up carnivorous plants, raffle prizes, a dessert potluck, and Gilman Brewery’s fine drinks and pizzas.

This meeting will focus on YOU, the grower, and your plants!

We’re hosting discussion groups by genus, so members and non-members alike can come together and talk and share about their favorite types of carnivorous plants, cultivation tips, and general plant excitement!

WHAT ABOUT THE RAFFLE?!
Just getting into growing plants? Need the right things to get started? Well, this meeting’s raffle is where to be! It will focus on cultivation supplies.

Are you a seasoned grower with a bunch of spare stuff lying around?
If you have any extra grow lights, pots, substrate/media, etc, please consider donating to the raffle! Plants, too, of course!

AND PIE???
We really meant dessert potluck but we didn’t wanna break a good alliteration Our winter potluck is back – we’d love it if you brought your favorite desserts to share.
This year’s potluck will be desserts only, as we hope attendees will support our gracious host, Gilman Brewery, by chowing down on their delicious pizzas

ELECTIONS
We are also holding our annual board elections at this meeting. While all current board members are running for re-election, any member is welcome to put their hat in the ring to be considered for the existing board positions. We also have a few more ways for BACPS members in good standing to get involved.

There will be four new roles joining the board in 2024:
– Education Outreach Coordinator
– Show & Sale Coordinator
– Social Media Coordinator
– Administrative Assistant

For those who are interested in these new roles, or are curious about other positions on the board, please reach out to president@bacps.org. Elections for new roles and re-elections for existing board members will be held on December 3rd.

As always this event is free and open to the public, and members are encouraged to bring plants to sell, trade, and show.

Hope you can join us!

3/23 BACPS Meetup: Spring Cleaning!
2024-03-23 11:00 - 16:00 | Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Spring Cleaning!
Spring is here and so are the plants that spent the last few months in winter dormancy! Plants like North American pitcher plants (Sarracenia) and Venus Flytraps (Dionaea) were busy producing new growth points and now is a great time to get some divisions going.
Join the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society for a day of plant repotting, dividing, cultivation tips, and trades/sales. Members are encouraged to bring plants that they wish to divide, trade, show, and sell. Please email Zach Lim at president@bacps.org if you wish to bring plants for sale to reserve table space.
Pssst: An incredibly generous member (thanks Mark!!) is bringing a ton carnivores to giveaway this weekend – you don’t wanna miss it!

Annual Show & Sale 2024
2024-06-22 00:00 | Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, 1011 Chestnut St, Alameda, 94501, United States
It’s our favorite time of year!! Join the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society for a day of wicked cool plants. The event is FREE and open to the public.
We’re bringing you some of the biggest, best, most talented, unique, (feel free to add 5 – 10 more words here) carnivorous plant nurseries and hobbyist growers on the planet!
Follow us on Instagram and join our Facebook group for vendor sneak peeks!
Members: Bring your beautiful plants for the show, and win great prizes!
Bring as many display specimens as possible to show! Prizes include highly coveted ribbons and gift certificates from some of your favorite vendors.
Fun for Families!
This free event is great for kids of all ages! See some of the most beautiful and bizarre plants from around the world, grown perfectly and all in one place! This unique collection of hungry plants fascinates and engages our young ones; their imaginations go into overdrive and many wish to learn more about their world! We have many kids attending our meetings so feel free to bring them to those too.
Check out our 2023 Show & Sale Recap!

Show & Sale Information

End-of-Year Bash: Plants, Prizes, and Potluck!
2024-12-14 12:30 - 16:00 | Shelldance Gardens, 2000 CA-1, Pacifica, 94044, United States
Please join us at the lovely and iconic Shelldance Gardens in Pacifica on Saturday, December 14, from 12 – 4:00pm. Surrounded by hundreds of different tropical plant species, such as orchids, bromeliads, and aroids, let’s get together in our ugliest holiday sweaters (or your best sweater, and only if you want) and celebrate the end of the year with a potluck, plants, and prizes.

Guests are encouraged (but not required!) to your favorite holiday dish or your specialty to share!
Members are welcome to bring plants to sell and trade!
As always we’ll have a raffle and BACPS swag for sale! Winter is fast approaching and so is gemmae season with Australia’s pygmy sundews – members are also encouraged to bring gemmae to swap!
We’ll also vote for the 2025 board.

BACPS Talks with Arthur Yin
2025-02-22 13:00 - 16:30 | Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Please join us at the at the Randall Museum in San Francisco on February 22 for a field report brought to us by Arthur Yin. Arthur will be presenting Pinguicula of Oaxaca and Beyond at the Randall Museum in San Francisco on 2/22. Arthur is a long time member of BACPS and served as the club’s treasurer, where he also had the opportunity to help organize International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) Conference in 2018.

Arthur has traveled the world looking at CP habitats for most genera and his first Pinguicula encounter was locating an unknown isolated population of P. macroceras 100 km from any known California sites.

Annual Show & Sale 2025
2025-06-14 12:00 - 17:00 | Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, 1011 Chestnut St, Alameda, 94501, United States
DETAILS COMING SOON!

9/21 Meetup: Plants, people, prizes, PINGDOMS!
2025-09-21 16:00 - 18:30 | Leaf & Vine – Urban Plant Shop Campbell, 1228 Camden Ave, Campbell, CA, 95008, United States
Summer’s winding down, but the plants are just heating up. Join us for a post-summer get-together at a brand new spot, the Leaf & Vine – Urban Plant Shop in Campbell. (Yep, this is the new sibling location to THE Santa Cruz Leaf & Vine!)
🌿Bring your plants. Bring your stories. Bring your treats.
We love a good potluck! Please bring your favorite finger foods to share and you crave something else, Starbucks is conveniently next door.
🌸 This month we’re putting the spotlight on YOU and your pingdoms!
Pingdoms are taking over the hobby, and many are compact enough to tote along. Show off your mini-bog artistry, share your secrets, and inspire the rest of us.
And don’t forget: it’s peak Sarracenia leucophylla season, so let those tall pitchers strut their stuff too!
🏆 The raffle returns!
No BACPS meeting is complete without it. Got extra plants, lights, pots, or media collecting dust? Set them free in the raffle and watch them find new homes. (Plants are always the stars, but gear is gold too!)
🍪 AND snacks?!
Yes, snacks! Sweet, salty, crunchy, or quirky—bring something to share with your old friends and the new ones you’ll meet.
As always, the event is free and open to the public. Members are encouraged to bring plants to sell, trade, and show.

Save the Date: End of Year Bash
2025-12-06 12:00 - 16:00 | Shelldance Gardens, 2000 CA-1, Pacifica, 94044, United States
Join us December 6 at Shelldance Gardens. Details to come!
