The Central New York Orchid Society

Each year in the Spring, our Club has an active bidding auction. Our Club politely seeks donations from Orchid Vendors that can be offered and sold at our Auction. Our Spring Auction is our main fund-raising event for the year.

Our Auctioneer will start with a suggested starting bid and will continue swiftly until there are no new competing bids. There often are many plants/supplies to auction off, so it is best to arrive earlier than the usual 2pm meeting starting time. When you arrive, first find our Club Treasurer and obtain your bidding number.
All plants and supplies received from volunteer donors will be actively bid upon one-by-one; there will be no silent auctioning unless there is an overwhelming supply of items. Also, all proceeds from this auction will go directly to the club. (We also have a January Silent Auction, where Members/Guests donate plants, and they are allowed to keep up to 50% of the winning bid totals, if they so choose).
Guests are completely welcome, and encouraged to attend and bid on plants as well! They will receive a bidding number also after a quick registration.
After a person wins a bid, a runner will bring them their plant. After the end of bidding, then winning bidders will see our Treasurer to pay for their total winnings.

It's a lot of fun to watch and participate in our Auction, and the Vendors often will send very interesting plants. If it is at all possible, we will have a list of plants/items available for auction and supply it before-hand.

Since we are auctioning off plants, we won't be holding a Raffle Table, but we always have our amazing Show Table, so please bring in your flowering orchids! (especially if you won it at one of our auctions).

Also remember that our 2013 Dues are due! See Club Treasurer Carol Haskell at the meeting

Our orchid club is now on Facebook! Check it out here and let us know what else you think might be good to have on the site.

Our 2012 Annual Fall Show and Sale went fairly well last year. Pictures and a synopsis of the 2012 Show can be seen here. Show pictures (almost 80!) and the awards list sorted by club will be uploaded to the Show Pictures page as well.

Our main website now hosts three photo galleries. One is our the Show Pictures page where images from our orchid shows can be viewed, The second is the Virtual Showtable page, which also has a section for you to display your growing areas, and the third gallery is the Native Orchids page (still in planning stage). Several members and friends go on orchid treks each year, and this is where they can post and you can view their pictures. Sometimes they also take pictures of other interesting plants they find along the way.

Also a reminder that our newsletter and website have a section where Members can post a list of orchids or orchid-related items they wish to sell/buy/trade. If you are a neighboring orchid society (including Canada) and will be having an orchid auction, these can be listed there as well as on our events calendar. Send requests to Newsletter Editor Eva Galson and your list will be put in the newsletter and on our website. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the next scheduled meeting - Thanks!

Hope to see you at our next meeting or event!

See the CNYOS calendar for other regional orchid-related events!