Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society

3/23 BACPS Meetup: Spring Cleaning!
2024-03-23 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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!
