 | Scarlet Runner Bean Seeds ( Phaseolus coccineus ). A Mexican native that was popularized by the great eighteenth-century English garden writer, Philip Miller, the Scarlet-runner is still very popular in Europe for the edible bean. Jefferson planted this lovely vine with its showy scarlet flowers in 1812, noting: "Arbor beans white, crimson, scarlet, purple...on long walk of garden." In 1806 the Philadelphia nurseryman Bernard McMahon wrote that it was grown in America exclusively as an ornamental. Whether for beauty or utility, sow the large, mottled... - Scarlet Runner Bean Seeds ( Phaseolus coccineus ). |
