Grow your own hummingbird favorites with Flower Scarlet Runner Bean! These open pollinated heirloom seeds produce beautiful scarlet flowers against heart-shaped foliage. As a rapid climber, it grows to 72-96 inches and requires a trellis. Enjoy edible flowers and delicious young beans in just 55 days. With a germination rate of 70% or better, you'll have continuous bloom all season long. Perfect for containers and adding a touch of color to your salads.

The scarlet runner is a visually stunning vine plant that produces beans, as well as small, red, heart-shaped flowers. The rate at which these vines grow is impressive; they can get up to twenty feet in length in a single season! With the vines and flowers being a breathtaking addition to your garden, the beans can be harvested and consumed after cooking, making these vines both beautiful and productive. Also known as Scarlet conqueror, fire bean, mammoth, red giant, scarlet emperor & white dutch runner. Their abundant red, pink, or bicolor blooms are attractive to hummingbirds, and this plant is often used as an ornamental.

Pods have a rich, delicious flavor, and should be picked when fairly short, between four and six inches, and used as snap beans. Once the pods become too tough for snap bean use, the immature seed can be shelled out, or allowed to mature and dry. Dried runner bean seed can be cooked like dried common bean seed.

With historical roots tracing back to the Hopi Indians, some varieties may have been cultivated by the Aztecs. Runner beans are now widely grown in England.

For optimal growth, be aware that high temperatures over 90°F may limit pod set. If grown for consumption, expect pod production primarily during late summer or early fall in the Mid-Atlantic and southward. In mild climates, a bulbous root is produced, allowing for fall digging and spring replanting.

Blooms in about 55 days. Germination rate about 70% or better.

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We cannot possibly put all the directions you need for growing flowers in your area on the seed package. We recommend that you read articles or check with other gardeners in your area.

This is an heirloom seed, meaning it has been passed down from generation to generation for at least 75 years. As a rule, heirloom seeds taste better and will grow the same year after year.

These are also open pollinated meaning they will reproduce themselves. While all heirlooms are open pollinated not all open pollinated seeds are heirlooms.

Freshly Packed: These bean seeds are packed for the current growing season and will provide high germination rates next year as well.