<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 150%;"><p><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span></p><div><div><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><b style=""><u style="">The current <font color="#0000ff" style=""><a href="http://www.sacredsucculents.com">PLANT MINI-AUCTION FUNDRAISER</a></font> closes this evening at 6:00 pm PST, Wednesday, May 24th</u></b><u style="">.</u> </font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font size="3"><br></font></span><span style="font-size: medium;">This
brief, tiny fundraiser is our effort at honoring your many requests to
hold auctions more regularly. Due to the recent winter adversities and
losses, <font color="#800000"><b>a<i> fair </i></b></font></span><b><font color="#800000"><i style="font-size: medium;">number of species will only be available via auction this year, </i><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span><i style="font-size: medium;"> <font color="#ff0000">many of the species/clones currently up for auction will <u>only be available this listing</u></font></i></font><span style="font-size: medium;"><font color="#ff0000">.</font> </span></b></div><div><span style="line-height: 21px;"><font size="3"><b>See partway down our homepage for the </b><b>auction terms and listings</b>: <span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><font color="#0000ff"><b><a href="http://www.sacredsucculents.com/">www.sacredsucculents.com</a><br></b></font></span></span></span></font></span><font style="" size="3"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><font color="#008000"><b>Please read the full terms before bidding.</b></font> <b><i><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#9900ff">All bids should be directed to our other email:</font></i></b> <b>benkamm@monitor.net </b></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 150%;">We honor the email bids <span style="line-height: 150%;">as first come first serve, </span>so
if we don’t respond right away—do not worry, we will honor your bid in
the order/time it was received. Towards the end of the auction can get hectic
and we may not be able to notify you in a timely manner if you’ve been
outbid during this last phase – so the last hour <i>we recommend checking the website
periodically</i> to see the current high bids. <i>After the auction closes you will be contacted by
email late evening or the following morning for the auction plants you
have won</i>. The winning bids should all be posted on the website no later than 7:30pm (PST), May 24. We request p</span></font><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 150%;">ayment (cash, check, or money order) be mailed promptly on Thursday, May 25. We ship your</span> plants <i>after</i> receiving payment.</font></div><div><font size="3"> <br></font><span style="font-size: medium;">Know
that auction purchases directly fund current nursery repairs and renovations as
well as our continual research and conservation work.</span></div></div><div style=""><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font style=""><span style="line-height: 150%;">
<p style="font-size: medium;" align="left"><span style="line-height: 150%;">
</span></p><div style="font-size: medium;"><font color="#000080"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;">Our <u>Specimen Plant List</u> is updated for May, see just below the auction on the homepage</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span></b></font></div><div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><p align="left"><font color="#800000"><b><u>Note:</u></b></font> With the intractable events of the last few seasons, and the extensive damage to many plants this winter, <b><font color="#800000">we have put a hold on shipping <u>new</u> <i>retail</i> orders</font></b>
(i.e., postmarked after May 23) until our stock has recovered and our
retail list PDFs have been adequately updated. The timing on this is
still to be determined. We are diligently working on fulfilling all
standing orders, but now expect this to take us through June. <i>See the top of our homepage for our 2023 retail shipping schedule. </i><font color="#800000"><b>The exception</b><b> to this limited shipping schedule for the year is:</b></font> <b><i>books/products, Specimen List Plants</i>, and <i>Auction Plants</i>—</b><b>these orders we will continue to ship throughout the year as they are received.</b><br>
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<span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"><font color="#134f5c"><b>New book available for order:</b></font></span>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b>GROWING
PLANT MEDICINE: Volume 1</b><br>
by Richo Cech illustrations by Sena Cech<br>
Brand new book from master plantsman Richo Cech, a
much-expanded version of the his classic <i>The Medicinal
Herb Grower</i>. Draws on the author’s lifetime of
cultivating and living with an amazing diversity of medicinal
plants. Pretty much everything you need to know about natural
organic gardening techniques, from seed to harvest, for a
great majority of healing herbs. Newly augmented with
bioregional medicinal plant recommendations, garden plans and
materia medica. Arranged by plant families, alphabetically by
kinship and common name—covers families A through H. Volume 2,
which is in production, will cover the rest of the alphabet.
This is hands down the best reference for medicinal plant
cultivation there is. Delightfully illustrated by Richo’s
daughter Sena, full of personal anecdotes and life stories—not
only useful, this book is a joy to read!<br>
Softcover, 354 pages $29.95 (2 lbs)<br>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><font color="#008000"><u><b>BOOKS:</b></u></font> Even though our catalog offering of books is greatly reduced these days, </span><b><a href="https://sacredsucculents.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SS-books-products-22.pdf"><font color="#0000ff">we still have a few excellent titles available</font></a></b><span style="font-size: medium;">, and we remain the US distributor for Jonathan Ott's work</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (we are currently working
with Jonathan to publish reprints of some of his long out-of-print books and several exciting new titles in the coming
years.)</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br>
</span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Regards,</span></div>
<div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br>
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<div style="font-size: medium;">Ben Kamm and family,<br>
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Sacred Succulents</font><br><font size="3">
PO Box 781</font><br><font size="3">
Sebastopol, CA 95473 USA</font><br>
<a href="http://www.sacredsucculents.com/" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.sacredsucculents.com</a>
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<div style="font-size: medium;"><b>Shipping for Books</b>
<div>
<div>To determine shipping costs, add up the
number of lbs in parentheses ( ) that is listed after the
price.</div>
<div>Priority Mail- add $8.50 for the first lb,
$2.25 for each additional lb. When ordered with plants just
add $2.25 for each lb</div>
<div>Books only sent Media Mail – add $4 for the
first lb, $0.75 for each additional lb</div>
<div>Please email us for international shipping
costs</div>
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