flowerbug
Garden Master
Ah! Sounds like a good haul!
Did a little sleuthing: Knowing that Joseph Simcox (aka 'the botanical explorer') only mentions one expedition to France, which was in 2010, and he gave @Bluejay77 his Haricot Tarbais in 2013... and Baker Creek began selling Haricot Tarbais (and bunches of other beans) in 2013*... I checked Baker Creek via the Wayback Machine for 2013. No go.
However, Rouge von Paris was sold by Baker Creek in 2016.
beautiful bean! (of course i had to look )...
my quick search for it came up with all sorts of foreign language pages having nothing to do with beans.
I checked 2013, 2016, then back to 2015 to see when Rouge von Paris first appears. It wasn't there in 2015 and I didn't look any further. I didn't see La Vigneronne in those years, but only looked at common beans.
*I bought Haricot Tarbais in 2017 and it was absolutely delicious when I finally got around to growing it in 2020, which is why I was so keen to save seed from the remaining 2017 seed in 2021. Haricot Tarbais was my GatewayDrugBean. 😎
haha, the first one is free! the most deadly words to humans and even more dangerous to those of us who might be collectors. i actually did not start with any free beans, but i have held up my end of free beans to get others to grow them by giving away some.
i just finished up making containers of every green bean or wax bean type i have (about 10 kinds) here that might be edible and have already given one of them away. i was hoping to take them to the seed swap but now that it is cancelled again i'm going to have to figure out what to do with all these.