Postcard Design Competition

OOS members and the public are invited to design a postcard for the May Show & Sale. All design must be the submitter’s own, original work. Design must be sized for standard A6 postcard, 5.83″ × 4.13″ (148 mm × 105 mm), portrait or landscape. The following information must be included on the postcard.

Oklahoma Orchid Society Show & Sale (This must be in a larger font.)

“Cruising for Orchids on Route 66” (This must be in a smaller font.)

Saturday & Sunday, May 2 & 3, 10am–4pm
Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK
Free Admission & Free Parking
Information: okOrchidSociety.org
Member of Oklahoma Garden Clubs, Inc.

Submit a PDF of your postcard to Show Co-Chairs by 5pm December 1, 2025. More than one design may be submitted per person.

OOS membership will vote on postcard designs at December’s Christmas Holiday Party. The winning design will become the property of Oklahoma Orchid Society, Inc., for advertising purposes. The submitter of the winning design will receive a $25 vendor coupon to be used at the May Show & Sale.

OOS’s Show & Sale, Saturday & Sunday, May 2 & 3, 2026

See hundreds of orchids on show and for sale at Oklahoma Orchid Society’s Annual Show & Sale, the Society’s AOS-sanctioned event of the year. This two-day “Bench and Full Exhibit” show with “Orchids in Use” section will be held from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th Street, Oklahoma City, OK. Admission and parking are free, and the event is open to the public.

Orchid plants for ribbon judging must be registered on the Friday preceding the Show & Sale from 10:00 am–5:00 pm in the Gardens’ Exhibition Hall. Registration deadline is 5:00 pm. Ribbon judging at the Show will begin at 8:00 am Saturday morning in the Gardens’ Exhibition Hall, immediately followed by AOS judging.

Vendors will have hundreds of beautiful orchids from around the world for sale, and OOS will have growing supplies for sale. Be sure to stop at the Welcome Booth to speak with OOS members about growing and re-blooming orchids, ask questions, purchase raffle tickets, engage your children in an orchid scavenger hunt, and learn how to become a member of the Society. Come, saturate your senses with orchids!

List of Vendors

Exhibitor Forms

Vendor Forms

Supporting Documents for the Show & Sale

SHOWTIME—Entering Your Orchid in a Show & Creating an Exhibit

Dr. Mike Friday, OOS Trustee, shows how to prepare an orchid for ribbon and/or AOS judging at a show and how to prepare an orchid exhibit for a show

In fulfillment of its mission, this Society shall … encourage all orchid activities of interest to the enthusiast, including the holding of orchid shows and sales.

OOS Constitution

SAVE THE DATE: 2027 OOS Show & Sale — Saturday & Sunday, May 8 & 9, 2027

The American Orchid Society’s judging system is comprised of 26 Centers comprising 34 sites throughout the United States and Canada. These Centers, including the Great Plains Judging Center, provide opportunities to have plants judged on specified monthly dates and at AOS-sanctioned shows, including the Oklahoma Orchid Society’s annual Show & Sale.