Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean) 25/3 Restock and the old use as

and the old use as a hair tonic both nod to those glossy dark stems

a well-drained

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

a diminutive that means little more than 'small tree

Erythrina herbacea (Coral Bean) 25/3 Restock and the old use asA 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