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A friend in the US has offered us cranberry bean seeds; their name for Borlotti it seems..

Found this comprehensive site but they do not seem to mention butter beans?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_ ... otti_beans

Once planted dried butter beans when I had a tunnel and got good green beans from them. And pinto etc.

Good morning Marigold

Are the seeds you have been offered dwarf or climbing? I now only grow climbing borlotti, and they can grow very tall.

As for the butter beans, these are, when "properly" named, usually Phaseolus lunatus, which is why they are not mentioned in your article.

See here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus_lunatus