Beanmad Nanna
Attractive To Bees
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2023
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- 43
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- Location
- Suffolk, UK (zone 8a) (microclimate)
The pictures of your set-up are lovely. Practically, I wonder how the birch stands up, as I 'know' them to be brittle in my experience. More, the stands of white stems reminds me somewhat of (northern territories?) Australian traditional funary/ancestor practices in Arnhemland, (I think). Decorated tree trunks placed in a sacred site. (oooh, all poetic now - feel a piece of writing coming on ... ) Something about lineage, and honouring those before as well as recognition & tending to those present. Using birch may be merely practical for you, but it looks stunning.Finally got some sunlight for pictures this evening. So interesting to watch the different beans grow and observe differences in their flowers and leaf types.
Network bean Dead Man's Tooth. Yup, it's a bush bean for me too @Artorius! The flowers are pure, pure white and make me think the name has as much to do with the flowers as the beans! (The runner on the left is from the other plant.)
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I think network bean Botosani Splash below may also turn out to be a bush bean. It's got good sized green beans forming and I still don't see any runners showing up.
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The buttery flowers of network bean Old Time Golden Stick (hope I got that name right).View attachment 58493
Network bean Stephano Borlotti D'Avento. Starting to really fill out. Looking forward to shelling these beauties!
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Network bean Grey Mountain.
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Network bean Kitoba. The seeds of this variety were remarkably pretty. A very unusual variety indeed.
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@Zeedman 's Sangre de Toro. The little red seeds sprouted plants that had pinkish reddish coloured stems in the early stages of growth. These went in as transplants so I'm a little surprised that they took so long to start climbing. But I did put more than 4 plants on the pole, so that may have had an effect. The growth habit is quite tidy. Looks like a few beans float around with this name attached, though they have different growth habits. View attachment 58500
Ecuador Cranberry, which went in as seeds.
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These are all network bean poles in the front row, if I remember correctly (right to left) they are Turkey #1, Hemelvaartboontje, *Sloot* (ahem), and...can't remember the last one?
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I let DD pick a bean to grow for this container - she chose Theresa's Pink Portugal. I'm surprised how big the plants have gotten for having gone in rather late as seeds.View attachment 58502