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Old 07-06-2013, 07:32 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Nearly yummy time
On 07/06/2013 17:55, wrote:
Baz wrote:
My broad beans only just have flowers. :-(
Very lovely deep pink flowers, though.

My ones are just plain white.
vicky, which variety do you grow? I would love to have that colour in my
garden next year.

Unfortunately I don't have the name. I got them a couple of years ago from
the Hampshire Potato Day, and they were just sold as "crimson flowered broad
beans". I could send you a handful if I can find the leftovers (that sounds
so mean - you know what I mean!), but the ones I have are self-saved, so they
are a mix so you may end up with all white!
(all the ones /I/ have had come through so far are pink, but you could get a
different set germinate, if that makes sense)

Feel free to send me your address and if I can I'll send you some.


If you google Red flowered Broad beans you will find a few suppliers.
They remind me of what I knew as "Cow Beans" they were grown as a field
crop, combined when fully ripe then milled in the winter as a feed
supplement for dairy cows, that was in the 50's
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