{"id":354936,"date":"2026-06-10T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354936\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:21:40","slug":"california-gardening-the-bay-area-carnivorous-plant-festival-in-alameda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/354936\/","title":{"rendered":"California gardening: The Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Festival in Alameda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like dogs and cats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/garden\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carnivorous plants<\/a> can be fed and watered. They can be given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/things-to-do\/pets-animals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scritches<\/a> and baths in the sun. But are they capable of giving us love in return?<\/p>\n<p>Until somebody breeds a talking Venus flytrap a la \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K6w3xb8gqpE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Little Shop of Horrors<\/a>,\u201d we may never know the answer. But humans\u2019 love for these plants is undeniable, as seen in the return of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bacps.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Festival<\/a>, billed by its organizers as the \u201clargest carnivorous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tag\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plant festival<\/a> in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking place at St. Joseph Notre Dame High School, in Alameda, the plant-travaganza gathers thousands of flytraps, pitchers, sundews and other bug-devouring species for admiration and purchase. Their human handlers will be there, as well, coming from all across the U.S. to exhibit rare and expertly tended specimens.<\/p>\n<p>There will be talks and demonstrations from growers, music and food (no tossing the plants any scraps, please) raffles and the sale of growing accessories. Children and parents alike can expect a day of wild education \u2013 perhaps culminating in taking home their own leafy guy or gal, to provide endless hours of meat-eating enjoyment this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Details: Noon-5 p.m. June 13 at 1011 Chestnut St., Alameda; free, <a href=\"https:\/\/bacps.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/bacps.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like dogs and cats, carnivorous plants can be fed and watered. They can be given scritches and baths&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[144762,143,145,144,144763],"class_list":["post-354936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-carnivorous-plant-festival-in-alameda-venus-flytrap-fly-traps-where-to-buy-contra-costa-san-francisco-south-san-jose-pitchers","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sundews-june-13-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}