What's the last date I can post this to to arrive in time for Christmas? nisipharm.de But what stands out most of all in the middle of autumn are the rows and rows of beans. Drying beans are one of Caroline’s main passions. She started growing them 15 years ago with some seeds she found in Budapest. They were being sold from heaps, piled up in baskets on a market stall and were definitely climbing beans of, as she says, “the Jack-and-the-beanstalk variety”. She bought a bagful home.