We will NOT be meeting at Contra Costa Water District August 10!!
We will have the Annal Auction and Picnic Saturday August 12 instead.
Donation plant submission starts 9:00-9:30
Auction starts at 10:00
Pleasant Hill Park
147 Gregory Ln
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
It is in Area #3 (just north of the parking lot in the southeast corner of the park). We need help the day of the auction. If you have any of these items, PLEASE BRING THEM… Chairs, Tables, Shade-tents, umbrellas, refreshments.
The Picnic
Immediately following the auction we will have a picnic at the same location. Provided: Plates, cups, utensils.
Please bring potluck picnic fare to share: Salads, Mains, Desserts, Beverages.
- Come to the auction and bid. This is your opportunity to obtain some excellent and potentially unusual/rare plants. It could also be your opportunity to get a division of one of those plants you saw at a Show and Tell or on Facebook that you coveted. Everyone can find a little space for a new orchid!
- Publicize the event and invite your friends to attend. The Auction and picnic are open to the public. Tell the members of any other orchid, garden, or plant clubs you belong to about the event. If you know someone who buys Trader Joe’s Phals. and might want to explore other species, invite them! We are
actively trying to rebuild our membership post-COVID. - Volunteer to help set up before and clean up after the event.
- Bring some food and drink and spend time socializing with other DVOS members after the auction. Remember to bring your own chair!
The auction will start around 10 AM, with setup and logging-in of donations about an hour earlier. The auction should be over by noon, which will leave us ample time to make use of the
picnic and barbeque facilities of the venue. Additional details will be forthcoming in the August Newsletter.
This year we have again a catalog for the auction.
DVOS August 2023 Plant Auction Catalog. and
2023 DVOS August Auction Catalog ADDENDUM 230808
All of the plants in this catalog will be available to bid on as well as all of the plants that come in the day of the auction. Distribute this catalog to anyone who might be interested. Start making your list of must haves!
YOU CANNOT BE PRESENT IN PERSON, BUT WOULD LIKE TO BID on items in the catalog, we have appointed Pat Bacchetti to act as Proxy and bid for you. Please contact her at bacpab@comcast.net no later than August 6 for details.
