Old Bean!

[Verinda]

When I joined this forum my first post was about my runner bean! At the time my runner bean that grows in a pot in our bedroom window had just had its fifth birthday! Now it's about to have its seventh birthday! It is looking a bit old now and didn't have so many leaves or much growth this year...but who would have thought that a runner bean could live so long?! Its never actually had a flower or a bean though, but maybe one day!

Maybe it deserves to be in the Guiness Book of Records!

[zazen999]

They are perennials in their native environment. Which is why it keeps on growing.

[Martin H]

Any chance of a picture?

[Verinda]

Are they from hot climate? So they wouldn't survive a winter outside in a cold climate then?

Well, it's looking a bit feeble at the moment or I would've posted a photo!

[PyreneesPlot]

They hate my hot climate and rarely set any beans - too dry (hollow laugh, this year) I'm guessing.

[Verinda]

Oh, well I wonder where runner beans come from. Perhaps I should have a runner bean bed, maybe they'd come up every year without having to plant new ones.