[Sacred Succulents] August updates and auction

[Sacred Succulents]

Greetings,
Rumors of Autumn have drifted in on nightly fog here the past week. A
veritable storm of cactus flowers too. 
You can view a few photos: http://sacredsucculents.com/photo-gallery/
If I could share their sweet odorous exhalations I would, but alas
some wonders are too ephemeral to capture.
We should get fully caught up with orders this coming week. _We are
making to difficult decision to take another hiatus on shipping new
orders--any order postmarked after this Monday, August 17th will be
shipped on a first come first serve basis beginning late
September/early October_. _The exception to this will be auction
plants which will ship as payment is received._ This is the only way
we can accomplish some essential plant propagation and nursery repairs
before summer's end. 
We are all feeling the strain of the pandemic as we watch the tide of
human desire and will break upon the rocky shore of bio-physical
reality. The current demands of just barely keeping our thousands of
plants alive, orders packed & shipped and our daughters engaged &
homeschooled has not afforded us space for anything else. If we do not
get much needed propagation done in the next month it will notably
effect the diversity of our offerings for the next several years.
Running a complex nursery such as ours means that we must track and
plan our propagation anywhere from 1 to 5+ years out. 
Third Mini Auction Fundraiser Has begun! See partway down our homepage
for the terms and listings: www.sacredsucculents.com  Please read the
full terms before bidding. The auction closes 6:30 pm PST Wednesday,
August 19.
As we recalibrate aspects of the nursery and shipping schedules we
hope to give our self more time for writing and research. We just
added a few pieces to the Botanical Reflections page of the website
http://sacredsucculents.com/botanical-reflections/ ; the first time
we've updated this page in 9 years. Here you can find a smattering of
our writing; childhood botanical musings, our floral assessment of a
remote Incan site, bizarre genealogy, and pondering the fictions of
taxonomy. We will post more eventually. 
For those interested some of the research & writing projects we would
like to finish if we can actually manifest the temporal space to do so
in the coming year(s):

	*Summary of my current (entirely inconclusive!) thoughts on
_Trichocereus_ taxonomy based on 27+ years cultivating the plants,
years of travel and research in the Andes observing distribution,
ecology, ethnobotany, archaeology and herbarium specimens.

Articles on:

	*The nearly extinct high Andean forests (the most endangered forest
ecosystem in the world.)	*Undescribed species of _Peperomia_ and
_Bomarea_ observed during my travels	*Andean anthropogenesis: Incan
terraforming, agroforestry and irrigation systems	*Vilca relations
over the millennia (= _Anadenanthera_ spp.; once one of the most vital
religious plants throughout the Andes.)

Along with full travelogues from past trips, sundry horticultural
expositions, not to mention thorough updates to the catalog/website
and more...
Perpetual gratitude for your ongoing support during these tumultuous
times!
Ben
Sacred Succulents
 PO Box 781
 Sebastopol, CA 95473 USA
 http://www.sacredsucculents.com
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