[Sacred Succulents] Year-end Sales & Specials

Mon Dec 30 08:12:04 PST 2024

Greetings fellow Plant-People,

What a year... Despite many losses and challenges, we still firmly 
believe in the power of conservation through cultivation, that the 
garden & greenhouse are bio-banks for the future, and that plant 
diversity is essential to resilience during these times of adversity.
You have our deep gratitude for your support & compassion through the 
tumult of recent years. We still have significant renovation work to get 
the nursery back on track and return /Sacred Succulents/ to full 
operation, but some notable progress has been made this year.
     We have exciting new plants in the works for the coming year and 
hope to return to offering many catalog species and seed later in 2025. 
We are at work on a number of other projects, including a full account 
of our /Trichocereus/ field accessions and publishing ethnobotanist 
Jonathan Ott's new & classic books, see below for details.

It has been our humble pleasure to encourage deeper relations with 
plants for over 25 years now! To further express gratitude to all our 
supporters, from now until 2024 ends, we are offering a bonus special 
/plus/ the greatest discount sales of the year on many dozens of plants 
and /all/ our books!

* ~  2024 **/Year End Sales and Specials! /~
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(Orders must be in the mail by New Year's Eve)
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*Year End Bonus Special!*
Orders of $60 or more can choose *15% their subtotal in free bonus 
plants or seeds*, selected from the Specimen Plant List 
<https://sacredsucculents.com/#specimen-plant-list> or the Andean Tuber 
Crops <https://sacredsucculents.com/andean-tuber-crops/> page. *This 
only applies to new orders* placed between 12/28 and 12/31/24.*This is 
/not/ a discount, but a gift bonus offer *(for example: an order 
subtotaling $120 can select $18 in additional plants/seeds). Regular 
shipping costs still apply.
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*SPECIMEN PLANT LIST:**Year End Plant & Seed Sale**!* From 12/28 through 
12/31/24, or while stock lasts, we have dozens of items on sale! 
See*https://sacredsucculents.com/#specimen-plant-list 
<https://sacredsucculents.com/#specimen-plant-list>*
Thenew offerings include a selection of Specimen Seeds, including new 
/Trichocereus/ hybrids & Andean rarities (this is some of the only seed 
we are currently shipping -- _international seed orders are welcome_!).
*/Many species have been selling out, so take advantage of these 
offerings while you can! /
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For folks in colder US regions, we can ship your order with a heat pack 
for a $5 fee.

/*_For the Specials & Sales pricing_ -- payments must be*/*in the 
mail*/*by the end of 2024!
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*ANDEAN TUBER CROPS:* We have a limited number of tubers available from 
now until the end of winter, or while supplies last. See our updated 
page *https://sacredsucculents.com/andean-tuber-crops/*
2024 was another difficult year and we didn't get to the tuber 
propagation we'd hoped, compounded by gophers chewing through the 
hardware-cloth at the bottom of several growing beds. We hope to build 
new raised-beds in 2025 and return to tuber production. Until then, our 
stock remains /very/ limited. To honor ongoing requests, we also list 
[after the tubers] a small quantity of seed of other *Andean Food Crops* 
(kiwicha, kaniwa, quinoa, caigua, tarwi, etc.) to grow in your garden 
this coming season! This and the Specimen Seed is the only retail seed 
we are offering this year; */international seed orders are welcome/!*
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*Note: */Sacred Succulents/ is currently operating at reduced capacity, 
other than what's listed among the Specimens and Andean tuber page, we 
are still /not/ taking seed orders or plant orders from the PDF catalog.
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*BOOKS: **Year End Sale**!* From now until the end of 12/31, or while 
stock lasts, *10 to 50%+ off* /all/ of our new and collector's titles, 
see**_*https://sacredsucculents.com/#**books* 
<https://sacredsucculents.com/#books>_**and 
_*https://sacredsucculents.com/#rare-used-books
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The sale includes all the *Jonathan Ott* 
<https://sacredsucculents.com/#ott-books>titles and a handful of 
historical artifacts for the serious collector:
A recently discovered, untouched case of the /1st edition/ softcover of 
Ott'sseminal /Pharmacotheon/, and a few more 
<https://sacredsucculents.com/#rare-used-books> of the Shulgin's 
unsigned /PiHKAL/ deluxe hardcover edition!

We still have a single/TiHKAL/ deluxe hardcover signed by both Sasha and 
Ann Shulgin which we are currently considering offers on, email us your 
best offer!
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*Ott Book Project*: We are working with our friend, the legendary 
ethnobotanist and author Jonathan Ott, on the publication of what is 
sure to become an historical phenomenon—a deluxe series of eleven 
volumes, including four new titles and three new editions of his 
long-out-of-print books. /*Photos of the first completed set are now 
posted*/, see www.jonathanottbooks.com <https://jonathanottbooks.com/>
Ordering should be set up in Janaury, for now, if you are interested in 
receiving updates about the project, email*benkamm at monitor.net * with 
“/Ott Books/” as the subject.
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*BOTANICAL PRODUCTS: *Last chance - 
*https://sacredsucculents.com/#products* 
<https://sacredsucculents.com/#products>
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A page with full descriptive and photographic accounts of our 
distributed */Trichocereus/ **BK**accessions* is currently under 
construction, see 
https://sacredsucculents.com/trichocereus-bk-accession-info/
<https://sacredsucculents.com/trichocereus-bk-accession-info/>
We're aware there is some confusion out there around our /Trichocereus/ 
BK//accessions distributed over the years. For clarity, we recently 
began work on a document that catalogs all 40+ of these field accessions 
together in one place. While fleshing out the descriptions more 
thoroughly, we're incorporating greater detail about the Andean habitat 
of each collection, including companion plants associates, plus 
additional ethnobotany and regional history. We also recognize the value 
in sharing information about distribution -- what year we originally 
introduced an accession into cultivation, what it was (seed, cuttings, 
seedlings), what has been distributed over the ensuing years, and 
approximate quantities. We had naively thought we could pull this 
together into a new web page, featuring photos of the plants, both 
in-situ and ex-situ, by winter solstice... Well, it turns out that this 
is a /much/ larger undertaking than we'd anticipated! In our scant 
'spare' time, we've been looking over /thousands/ of photos, reading 
through our old field notes, two decades of /Sacred Succulents/ 
catalogs, and hundreds of pages of /SS/ supplements, rare plant lists, 
etc, not to mention additional reference material. We now endeavor to 
work on this in stages, updating the webpage periodically, with the goal 
to have the entire project completed by spring 2025. Expect more 
descriptions and images to be posted in the coming weeks!
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You have our sincere gratitude for your ongoing support of our 
endeavors. Despite the inevitable challenges we all face with a rapidly 
changing climate, may your plants and gardens provide you many sublime 
moments of joy and grace inthe coming year!

Ben Kamm & family

*Sacred Succulents*: Rare & Endangered Beneficial Plants & Seeds
/*Conservation of Resilient Biodiversity through Propagation, 
Dissemination and Education
*/*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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          *MICROCOSMS: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas
          <https://www.microcosmssacredplants.org/>*
          A stunning hidden dimension of plants revealed through
          confocal microscopy./
          Ben Kamm is a contributing researcher and photographer to this
          unique science-art project.//
          His commentary on the
          project/ -*https://www.microcosmssacredplants.org/commentary/ben-kamm/*/
          His article on the Andean keystone tree/
          /Polylepis/ -***https://www.microcosmssacredplants.org/plant/polylepis-spp/*

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                    /LITTLE, BIG <https://littlebig25.com/PR-240907.shtml>
                    /In addition to caring for thousands of plants, the
                    last few years I've assisted in publishing the
                    anniversary edition of my friend John Crowley's 1981
                    award winning novel,/Little, Big/. Erik
                    Davis recently posted an essay about the book in
                    which I make an
                    appearance:https://www.burningshore.com/p/big-little-big
                    <https://www.burningshore.com/p/big-little-big>Stock
                    is running low, but books can still be
                    purchased:https://store.deepvellum.org/products/little-big
                    <https://store.deepvellum.org/products/little-big>

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