This popular and appropriately-named runner bean, performs exceptionally well, producing a good crop of medium-sized superbly flavoured beans with distinctively different seeds from other varieties. ... Learn More

A sprawling bush habit plant producing vivid purple,13 centimetre long, slightly curved pods with beige seed. Pods contain a natural blanching indicator causing them to change to green on boiling. ... Learn More

"Safari" is a very heavy cropping, reliable, late maturing type with a strong, vigorous plant habit. It produces high yields of long, fine 30cm pods which are held well above the soil for easy picking. Safari is sometimes known as Kenyan Beans and has a high level of disease resistance. This family of beans is frost tender and cannot be sown until the weather has warmed up. ... Learn More

A popular, good-yielding, old favourite English runner bean with striking red blossom and large pods which contain deep purple beans speckled with red or lavender when mature. ... Learn More

Medium to small beans, that average 15mm in width. Around 6-8 beans per pod, with good flavour and texture. White seeded. A very heavy early cropper. Plant spacing 20 x 60cm. Harvest from May to October (sow February to March unless otherwise stated). ... Learn More

A very hardy, early-cropping, long-pod broad bean suitable for sowing in Autumn and again in Spring producing compact plants with 7-8 excellent tasting pale beans per pod. This famous variety for autumn sowing, is also known as 'Leviathan'. ... Learn More

A dwarf (18"-24") self-supporting, bushy broad bean which can be spring-sown, or overwintered if protected using cloches. Perfect for the small or exposed garden this variety produces compact plants with multi-heads of beans with around 5 beans per pod. A heavy yielding plant, the beans are best harvested young for the best taste. RHS 'Award of Garden Merit' winner. ... Learn More

A very reliable and fast-maturing spring-sown broad bean, Witkiem gives heavy crops and tolerates cold weather well. It can be sown from February to May and the sturdy 3 foot high plants produce top quality, strong-flavoured white beans (usually five in a pod) which are well-suited to freezing. ... Learn More

A vigorous and delicious type of early main-crop pea with good resistance to powdery mildew and fusarium wilt, and which is reliable in all soil types, producing large crops of blunt, double pods averaging 8-9 peas per pod. ... Learn More

If you're going to sow only one pea, sow Pea 'Hurst Green Shaft'. A sweet-tasting, wrinkle-seeded, tall, super heavy-yielding variety, with long, 4-5 inch pods, with 9-11 peas in a pod, and double podded too, and it resists downy mildew and fusarium wilt. ... Learn More

A popular old favourite variety of second early/maincrop pea, Kelvedon Wonder, produces pods with up to 8 tasty wrinkled peas inside. It is resistant to Pea Wilt and tolerant to Downy Mildew and can be succession sown from March to July but is versatile enough to be sown in November, in well-drained soil, for an early harvest. ... Learn More

An award-winning mangetout sugar pea which produces pods in clusters of two rather than the usual one. Consequently, a very heavy yielding variety with good disease resistance. The sweet, crunchy pods are ideal for use in stir-fries. ... Learn More