In an earlier post I mentioned how impressed I am with the
runner bean 'Wisley Magic'. Some of you will know that Wisley is a place where the Royal Horticultural Society have one of their gardens. Anyway, today I have run out of fresh green vegetables for dinner so the runner beans are going to be very useful. It is surprising how fast they have grown, even in all the rain that we have had lately. The beans are not the least bit woody and most are straight and some about 14 inches in length. I've picked plenty off this solitary plant and there are lots more still growing. Imagine, if I had planted the whole packet in a long row I would have been able to feed my neighbourhood with them.
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| Wisley Magic runner beans |
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| Wisley Magic runner bean in flower |
The flowers are very beautiful and make a nice climber for the fence.
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Wisley Magic runner bean
growing amid the Dr Ruppel clematis, Jasmine, and Generous Gardener rose |
They attract bees too.
