Climbing Bean 'Monte Cristo' is a new variety which is already gaining ground among gardeners. Cropping early in the season, it will continue to produce tasty French Beans over a long period.
Climbing Bean ?Monte Gusto? is a brown seeded variety, producing beautiful pale yellow pods. Heavy crops of uniform French Beans are produced over a long picking season. This attractive variety is not just grown for its good looks - the flavour is superb!
This highly decorative French Bean makes a fabulous talking point in the vegetable garden, or even in your flower borders. Climbing Bean 'Selma Zebra' is a T&M reintroduction from 30 years ago, and still as eye catching as ever. The unusual marbled pods are particularly early to mature in July and continue to set pods throughout the summer. These tasty beans turn green when cooked. Height: 180cm (70). Spread: 30cm (12)
Bring some old-fashioned flavour to your vegetable plot with this heritage Climbing Bean. Marbled pods develop early in the season, ready for picking from July onwards.
A most attractive variety from the same breeder as the ever-popular Climbing Bean ?Cobra?! Climbing Bean 'Sunshine' produces long golden pods that reach up to 18cm (7) long. The slender pods are stringless and stand out nicely against the bright green foliage.
Dating back to the late 19th century, this heirloom variety is justly popular for its flavour and its heavy crops of round, stringless pods. With consistently good results over a long cropping season, this prolific climbing French bean produces clusters of fleshy pods that have a superior texture and taste and are rich in vitamins and fibre. As well as being easy to grow, 'Blue Lake' makes an attractive feature whether grown in the veg garden or nestled amongst herbaceous plants in your beds and borders. They look particularly good when grown up a trellis or 'wigwam' of canes, not least for their pretty white flowers. Plant them with sweet peas for a pleasing contrast of colours. 'Blue Lake' is generally grown as a green bean for cooking. In fact, they should not be eaten raw as they contain toxins that are destroyed in the cooking process. The pods are best picked young to increase yields, and steamed or boiled rapidly to make the best of their flavour and texture, as well as to retain the most nutrients. Inside the rich green pods are white seeds or beans, which can be harvested from pods that are left to mature for longer on the plant. They can then be dried and stored to be used as haricot beans in soups and stews. This climbing bean will thrive in neutral, humus-rich, moisture-retentive but well-drained soil in a sunny position. Sow the seeds indoors from April to May to plant out May to June; or sow outdoors from May to July, directly where they are to crop. Harvest from July to October. Supplied as a pack of 100 (approx.) seeds ready to sow indoors into individual pots or outdoors directly into their cropping position. Grows to 180cm height x 45cm spread.
Climbing French Beans produce heavy yields over a long picking season. This collection of delicious French Beans will give you more than enough stringless beans to feed the whole family, and share some with your neighbours too!
Stringless and packed with flavour, Climbing Bean Mixed is the result of the latest climbing mangetout breeding. Producing high yields of straight, 25cm (10in) pods right through the summer, which hold in prime condition over a much longer period than older, more traditional varieties. This mix of three varieties will give you a range of pod and flower colours - making it decorative in the garden, as well as on the plate!
This climbing Flame Lily makes a spectacular focal point for your conservatory. This exotic climber produces stunning flame-like blooms throughout summer, bringing a tropical feel to your home.
These brilliant new Petunias are vigorous and will spread up to about 90cm (3ft), making them ideal for groundcover in larger areas of garden borders. Or you could grow them against netting or trellises for fabulous height upwards too a bit like the climbing Fuchsia Lady Boothby. Either way, this will mean you get the fabulous flower power of Petunias, but something a bit different too! They are very rain and weatherproof, and will produce their beautiful displays all summer long whatever the British summer throws at them! They are very easy to grow and look incredible perfect for beginners who want professional-looking displays in all settings - borders, tubs or baskets, you will be rewarded by masse sof long season colour. With this brilliant mixed collection, you will a mix of the 3 shades - Petunia Tidal Wave Silver, Petunia Tidal Wave Hot Pink, and Petunia Tidal Wave Purple.
Following on from the success of Lady Boothby, Pink Fizz is a brand new 'climbing' fuchsia which is fully hardy and grows vigorously and vertically, reaching up to 1.5m in a single season. Rose pink and crimson blooms cover the length of its vigorous stems throughout the summer giving a sumptuous display, making it ideal to grow up fences, walls and trellises. While the stems are strong, so vigorous is the growth that Pink Fizz may need some support in windy areas. Flowering from June through till first frosts of late autumn, in milder winters it will keep its leaves on, and in colder ones lose its leaves and shoot again from the base the next season. A stunning new type of Fuchsia, and so easy to grow, 'Pink Fizz' lets you grow hardy fuchsias in ways you had never considered - as a hedge, at the back of a border, or for screening off unsighlty parts of the garden. Supplied as a pack of 6 plug plants for potting up and growing on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.