Two years ago while setting new CVS Pharmacies in California I took a Sunday drive with a friend to Los Olivos near Solvang. If simple charm appeals to you, then Los Olivos has your name written on it. With several art galleries, tasting rooms, restaurants and the upscale Fess Parker Inn, your agenda is to relax, slow down and smell the wine grapes or taste the apples grown locally.. "A Day in the Country" held each October in Los Olivos celebrates the apple harvests but most days throughout the year, you can sample local wines from fields grown right around Los Olivos.
Well in Los Olivos we happened to find “Patrick’s On the Side Street” a real cute diner tucked away on, you guessed it, a side street. The owner Patrick gave us a guided tour of his garden and there I was introduced to the “Stag Horned Fern”! “
Stag Horns are “A” sexual, prehistoric plants, one of two remaining today! They grow in moss and develop spores.
So taken by the 400 pound Stag Horn that Patrick had in his garden I bought a cup size one and returned to GA with it. Two years later Stag lives in the office window and is loving life. He still hasn’t developed spores!
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