Today at the PlantPets Winter Holiday Gala, we are releasing two new Crocus plantpets: the limited edition Crocus *Frosty Claus Bloom* and the seasonal elite Crocus *Choco*. They are specially crafted to be given as awards to the participants in the PlantPets Winter Holiday Contest for designing 4x4 meter dioramas. Of course, once they come as baby seeds to breeders they will become available in the shops of breeders.

Do you find joy in crafting and wish to spread the festive cheer among the PlantPets community? Join us for the PlantPets Winter Holiday Contest!

To participate, simply complete a registration notecard and deposit it into the designated sign in front of the PlantPets Main Store by December 15th.

Taxi: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Image%20dAlliez/191/65/22

Today we released a new PlantPets species: Tree Chair. The mesh for the tree chair is an original artwork of Regi Yifu who collaborated with us on creating 9 chairs that grow and produce baby seeds as you sit on them!

Check them out in your web catalog at https://plantpets.dejapi.com/?q=catalog&species=Tree%20Chair and also come to try them in the PlantPets Main Store.

Any pictures added to the PlantPets Community Flickr group in Sep ‘23 automatically enter a photo contest with cash prizes!

https://www.flickr.com/groups/secondlifeplantpets/

RULES:

1. There must be at least one growing plantpet in the picture.
2. The picture must be added to the PlantPets Community Flickr group in September ‘23. It may be uploaded earlier.
3. The picture must be PG rated.

The 3 pictures with most likes on Oct 1st win the following cash prizes:

The automatic update for pre-2019 PlantPets seeds was available for four years. Since making this update 100% secure was impossible, we had to limit its availability. It was available for four years until June 2023.

Since some avatars still have old seeds, we announce the following manual procedure for updating old seeds. If you have old seeds that you want updates please do the following:

1. Pay Bruce Liebknecht L$50 per seed you want updated.
2. IM Bruce Liebknecht and give him a folder with your old seeds. Put your avatar name in the name of the folder.

We are very excited to announce a few new PlantPets products and developments launched at the Walk in the Woods event today. At the event, we are presenting two new PlantPets species Organic Furniture and Fairy Slipper as well as a brand-new seasonal Fruit Tree *Rainier Cherry*.

All our vendors at the event are set at 15% discount for members of the group PlantPets. Our presentation at the event can be found at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wildridge%20Chateau/117/76/23.

If you have produced more PlantPets seeds than you wish to plant and grow yourself, there are multiple things you can do with them:

Dear PlantPets Community, after some deliberation, we have decided to implement a new way of determining prices and selling seeds by PlantPets at the PlantPets Main Store and events. This DOES NOT affect the market booths and market tables at the PlantPets Market.

From the 6th of August, we will implement the following, which we hope will lead to a healthier breeders market:

On the 1st of July, we released new species - Fruit Tree - four common trees, 3 rares, and 1 limited dedicated to Jul 4. They are lemon, lime, cherry, plum, and pear and they can give each other as a baby seed!

They are beautifully built by Roxy Bergiere of Love Everlasting. Roxy also added animations to the planter that make it more fun to interact with the fruit trees.

After 10 years or so at its previous location, we moved the PlantPets Main Store to a neighboring region where we can build a market around the main store. Yesterday we completed the move. Our new location is https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Image%20dAlliez/191/65/22.