Visitors to the May 12 orchid show and sale in North Bend will see blooming orchids, such as this Laelia purpurata. Contributed Photo

Weekend sale features plants, books

The annual Friends of the Coos Bay Public Library annual spring plant and book sale is Saturday and Sunday. Sale hours are set from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday; and from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the library on the corner of Sixth Street and Anderson Avenue in downtown Coos Bay.

Hundreds of flowers and plants have been donated to the sale. Featured books on plants and gardening will be on sale. Most books will cost 25 cents each and a half-price sale on Sunday only.

Orchid show features blooms, info.

The one-day Pacific Orchid Society Spring Orchid Show and Sale is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, at the Pony Village Mall on Virginia Avenue in North Bend.

Activities will include a display of blooming orchids, sales of orchids and potting material by members. Also, experts will re-pot home orchids for a nominal fee, and there will be information and advice on cultivating orchids.

Clubs partner for CB sale

Garden clubs from Coos Bay, North Bend and Bandon are hosting a spring plant sale that will feature traditional garden and native plants.

The show will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 12, at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1290 Thompson Road, Coos Bay.

The spring sale was started in 1979 and has been growing each year, offering a wide variety of outdoor and indoor species. Plants offered will include house plants, flowering plants for the yard, vegetables, ferns and native plants. One North Bend garden club member intends to bring 300 tomato plants, and another member is providing flats of squash, cucumbers and statice.

Parade of Ponds

Living Water's Aquascapes presents the third-annual Parade of Ponds, a benefit for Habitat for Humanity, on Saturday, May 12. The tour will feature 22 Coos County water gardens from North Bend and Coos Bay to Charleston, Bandon and Coquille.

One new stop will feature a large koi and goldfish pond, with an upwelling bog system. Another garden includes a 14-foot raised pool with columns in the middle of it. It's situated in the center of a circular drive, with a creek that flows under a driveway and breaks downhill into two large streams that merge into a large pond with big stepping stones in the middle.

Tickets and maps to the day-long event are $10 and are available in - Coos Bay: 3 B's Nursery, 755 S. Empire Blvd.; City Subs, 149 N. Fourth St.; South Coast Saw & Garden, 1120 S. Broadway. Coquille: Pacific Koi & Watergardens, 1295 N. Grape St. Bandon: Bandon True Value, 840 Oregon Ave. S.W.

The self-guided tour runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a barbecue from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at one of the gardens.

Tomato-Rama sale in North Bend

Gardeners eagerly await it each year - the Coos County Master Gardeners Association's Tomato-Rama & More plant sale. The fourth-annual event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 19; and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, May 20, at the Pony Village Mall in North Bend.

The sale will include many varieties of tomatoes, annuals, perennials, herbs and flowers of all kinds. In addition, the group will be selling vegetable starts, vines, shrubs, house plants, ground covers, sedums and more. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer questions.