Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean) 25/3 Restock the southern shield fern is

the southern shield fern is the kind of plant that looks effortless precisely because so little is asked of the gardener once the fern is settled in the right spot

then rewards generations

a well-drained

more serene presence

lacquered leaves catch what little light reaches them and give substance to the dim places

Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean) 25/3 Restock the southern shield fern isA relic of the old Southern wilds, Erythrina herbacea, the coral bean, is a plant that commands attention, graceful yet defiant, wild yet refined. A legume native across the coastal Southeast, the coral bean shifts habit with the winter: in frost free zones the plant grows as a woody shrub, branching boldly above the ground, while farther north the top dies down with the first hard freeze, only to rise again from a thick, gnarled rootstock when the