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Most beautiful beans?

 
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Forgot to mention: in Dutch we don't call them 'angel beans' (which would be 'engelboontjes'), but 'holy beans' ('heilige boontjes')
 
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My personal favorite of all time for looks is the Painted Pony beans. Its striking mix of white and deep brown gives it a timeless, classic beauty.
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Anita Martin wrote: But I might venture into the land of beautiful beans. I received some beautiful beans from an Internet friend in Austria like Yin Yang beans and Angel beans, but I could not grow them in my soil and climate - Austria has some warmer wine-growing regions that allow for such crops (and apricots!). I have to deal with the conditions I have, I guess.



Here in the US I just found out that Angel beans are sold under the name "Holy bean", just as with the Dutch (thank you Inge!).  I just got some seeds!  Now to see if they will do ok here in Maine.
 
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I've been harvesting my broad beans and came across these beauties!

I'm not sure what variety they are, but they seem to have done pretty well for me this year.
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large seeded pink broad beans in a pod
Pink broad bean seeds
 
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