I have a tub of mixed runner beans and french beans. This afternoon I
had that remarkably rare beast, a honey bee, around the tub. It was
giving all its attention to the white flowered french bean and ignoring
the red flowered runner bean. That's not particularly surprising - most
of the bee pollinated flowers seem to be in shades of pink and
pinky-blue, which is why so many of our flowers are that colour and so
few are bright orange or bright red. But that left me wondering - do
white flowered runner beans set better than red flowered?
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Kay