[Sacred Succulents] Nursery News & New Auction

[Sacred Succulents]

	Greetings, 
         We'd hoped to be caught up with  shipping the winter orders
by now, but this is far from the case and it  now looks like it will
take us _most of June_ to get caught up.  Things have been
_significantly_ complicated by the extensive damage to  our stock over
the winter and the erratic spring weather (just 2 weeks  ago we had a
week of intermittent rain, hail and frost). This past week  was the
_first_ time we'd been able to safely _begin_ to take cuttings from
the outdoor _Trichocereus_  (much later than usual) to fulfill
standing orders. We are still in the  process of cleaning up the
damaged cacti and assessing what we can  realistically offer retail
this year. We're also inching forward with  essential nursery
renovations, yet we continue to find ourselves in the  frustrating
position of not being able to keep up with everything. We  can only
persist in our efforts and express our gratitude for your  patience
and support. It has become clear that we must do a major  overhaul on
our retail lists, so until we accomplish this, we must  further delay
shipping on new retail orders until later in the year.  Therefore any
new retail orders postmarked _after_ May 23 will not  ship until later
in the summer, the timing still to be determined (see  the homepage
for current retail schedule). Again, I apologize for the 
inconvenience of all this, it is the best we can do given our current 
challenges. We will continue to update the Specimen List and ship such
 orders monthly and strive to hold one small Plant Auction every 4-6 
weeks.
  A new Plant Mini-Auction Fundraiser has begun!
    I'm attempting to honor the many requests for more regular plant 
auctions—a small auction (10 plants) has been posted today and runs
less than 3 days -- only until this Wednesday evening. Due to the
winter adversities, a _number of plants will only  be available via
auction this year, and many of these only as a one  time offering_.   
           

	                                    See partway down our homepage for
the auction terms and listings: www.sacredsucculents.com
                                        Please read the full terms
before bidding. _All bids should be directed to our other email:_
benkamm at monitor.net   
 The auction closes this Wednesday, May 24, at 6:00pm Pacific Standard
Time. 
                            Know  that auction purchases directly fund
nursery repairs and renovations as  well as our continual research and
conservation work.                              
           Our Specimen Plant List is updated for May, see just below
the auction on the homepage.                          

	Regards,
            Ben Kamm and family,
     Sacred Succulents
       PO Box 781
       Sebastopol, CA 95473 USA
       http://www.sacredsucculents.com        
 We do not take Paypal or other online payments. Still just cash,
check or money order to our PO box.
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