“Bunyards Exhibition” broad beans are a favorite of Chefs worldwide and the most popular old variety with home gardeners because of their beautiful colour and unique flavour. This reliable early English white longpod can be sown in autumn in mild areas and successionally sown throughout the spring.

Broad Bean 'Monica' is probably the quickest maturing spring sown bean currently available. This vigorous, high yielding variety is ideal for early, mid and late sowings and can be sown as late as May. The plants produce a heavy yield with 5 to 6 very large, succulent white beans in hang down pods.

‘Purple Queen’ French beans are the sort of fun, sassy crop every stylish gardener wants to grow in their good-looking veg plot. They race up their supports, burst into shocking magenta flower, and then produce hundreds of gorgeous regal purple beans which are a pure pleasure to eat.

Italy's noble bean grows in cream and claret flecked pods, it is a lovely tasting and strikingly beautiful bean. A dwarf variety growing to just 60cm, Borlotto Suprema is suitable where space is limited, in containers on balconies or as a border plant in small gardens.

"Stanley" is a white flowering, white seeded variety that reliably delivers impressive yields of top quality beans. Resistant to Halo Blight, Anthracnose and BCMV. it reliably delivers very abundant yields of long, straight pods and top quality beans.

Growing to about 45cm, French Bean 'Stanley' is an excellent variety to grow in containers. It performs well even in less favourable conditions, is ideal for growing under cover early or late in the season and gives superb yields for a small amount of space, outlay and effort. Organic Seeds.

Blue Lake is a classic choice for early beans of highest quality eating. A wonderfully prolific climbing bean that does well even in adverse weather, the dark green pods remain stringless and fibreless at all stages of growth. They are tender and rich, and filled with white seeds that are of incomparable flavour.