Runner Beans: Useful and a Pleasure at the Same Time

Runner beans are one of those plants that manage to be both useful and a pleasure at the same time — you get an actual harvest out of them, but you also get the flowers, which are reason enough on their own to grow them.

Not every crop gives you both food and something genuinely decorative from the same plant, which is part of why runner beans keep earning their spot in the garden every year.