Orchid show

The one-day Pacific Orchid Society Spring Orchid Show and Sale is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today 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.

Bay Area plant 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. today 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 a variety of 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 is today. The tour is a benefit for Habitat for Humanity and features more than 20 Coos County water gardens. Tickets to the day-long event, which starts at 10 a.m., are available at 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.; and Bandon: Bandon True Value, 840 Oregon Ave. S.W.

Parade of Ponds

Rhododendron Sunday is being held at Shore Acres State Park, 89039 Cape Arago Highway, on Sunday. Head gardener George Guthrie and experts from the Southwestern Oregon Rhododendron Society will be on hand to answer rhody questions. Artists from the Bay Area Artists Association also will participate in a “paint-out” in the Garden.

The community is invited to enjoy the blooms and spectacular ocean views.