Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society

Annual Show & Sale 2024
2024-06-22 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, 1011 Chestnut St, Alameda, CA, 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, CA, 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!

Bug Day at the Randall
2026-04-18 10:00 - 14:00 | Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
Get BUGGY at the Randall Museum!
The earth’s little creatures are mighty important. Join us for this special yearly event where we learn about and celebrate insects, arachnids, arthropods and all types of little critters!

BACPS meet-up: Plants 🪴 and beer! 🍻
2026-05-09 11:30 - 14:30 | Hapa’s Brewing Company, 460 Lincoln Ave #90, San Jose, CA, 95126, United States
Join us for a casual get-together at Hapa’s Brewing Company in San Jose.
Bring plants to sell, trade or show off. Or just bring yourself!
If we have enough donations, we’ll have a raffle.
Beer and food will be available for purchase.

The Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Festival 2026
2026-06-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, 1011 Chestnut St, Alameda, CA, 94501, United States
A One-of-a-Kind Bay Area Event for Families and Children of All Ages

Rows of tables. Thousands of carnivorous plants. One unforgettable day.

Join the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society for the largest carnivorous plant festival in the country—and the only one of its kind.

Explore a full festival of growers and plants you won’t find anywhere else, all in one place!

What to expect:

Dozens of vendors from around the country, with tables packed full of carnivorous plants and grower accessories
Rare, unusual, and expertly grown species
Talks and demos from passionate experts
A fun, welcoming environment (great for kids and families)
Food, music, raffles, and more

Whether you’re a serious collector or just curious about plants that eat bugs, there’s something here you’ve never seen before.

Come for the plants. Stay for the experience.
