Plum Trees

 A late dessert Plum for eating into October that has an excellent flavour. Red-purple fruits with a slight blue flush produced on an upright tree, a very heavy cropper. Anna Spath is an introduction from Germany with many high qualities. Partially self fertile and will usually produce a worthwhile crop on it’s own, for best results pollinate with Victoria or Czar.

A large dessert plum that ripens late August usually about a week to 10 days earlier than the popular Victoria. The fruits are round oval with a red skin and light bloom. The large fruits have a lovely flavour and are virtually freestone. Yield is slightly less than Victoria but some 70% of the crop is large fruits of very high quality. Avalon will normally be pollinated with Victoria but Edwards and Valor are recommended. Avalon is a superb variety, and well worth a trial planting.

 An old English plum tree variety that was raised in Bedfordshire in 1923. The medium to large deep dusky violet-purple fruits ripen almost to black and have a succulent yellow-green flesh. They ripen early to mid August and are easily stoned. A beautiful flavour for dessert use, mild and sweet.  This is a variety we get asked for very frequently and demand usually exceeds supply. Good pollinators are Czar, Rivers Early Prolific, Jubilee, Opal and Edda. 

 Syn Belgian Blue. A hardy and productive tree with good quality deep blue/purple fruits, ripening mid August. Pleasant, sweet dessert flavour that may also be used for all culinary purposes. Juicy yellow flesh. Partially self fertile and also pollinates with Marjories Seedling, Czar, Jubilee and Victoria. 

An unusual American raised variety with handsome large purple red oval fruits for use early-mid september. Flesh juicy, yellow, good for dessert.   Has produced some fine sizeable fruits here but although it has been known in the UK for some years, has proved an an unreliable cropper here. One for the enthusiast or may prove more prolific against a warm wall or similar aspect. Pollinate with Avalon, Marjories Seedling, Swan, Monarch etc. 

A historical regal plum re-introduced. Such an eating sensation could not possibly have remained a secret for so long, could it? For this outstanding variety has such an endless list of fine qualities. First it is the huge size of its perfect oval fruits, then it is the beautiful soft yellow skin, just lightly blushed with pink on the sunny side… the succulent juice-dripping golden flesh… quite possibly the finest eating sensation the Plum family has to offer. Partly self fertile and therefore setting a good yield on its own, this huge Plum will have friends and neighbours lining up…

The earliest plum to ripen. Pleasant dessert flavour and also suitable for cooking. Compact tree. Yellow/red fruits. Pollinate with: Czar, Victoria or Rivers’ Early Prolific.

A Norwegian variety raised by crossing Czar x Peche. An early variety ready in late July, this is a little known but most promising variety The large oval deep blueblack fruits are of excellent quality and have a good dessert flavour but it is the cooked produce of this variety that so impressed us – wonderfully rich and sweet! An excellent choice for an early dual purpose variety. Very hardy. Pollinate with: Victoria, Pershore Yellow, Czar, Opal etc.

Similar to the popular variety Victoria but cropping rather later in late September and October. Excellent flavour and a very worthwhile variety. No pollinator required.

New for our lists. A very early plum that is usually ready for picking in late July. The fruits are medium sized, blue-black and free from the stone with ease. The quality is outstanding and the flavour good. Self fertile, no pollinators required.