Plums

Plums

An expanding selection of Plum trees are offered for sale from the sweetest of Greengage to culinary varieties. Something to suit everyone from well known varieties such as Victoria to the less well known but just as desirable are for sale

The Plum season lasts from late July until September with most varieties ripening during August. Victoria followed by Marjories Seedling are the most likely varieties to be found in the shops in the UK. However there are many other plum trees to buy. Gages, including Greengage, being the sweetest are best eaten raw. Others are such as Victoria are dual purpose, excellent eaten raw or served cooked. Other Plum trees such as Yellow Egg the fruit is best cooked. The qualities of each variety are detailed below.

When choosing plum trees to buy bear in mind that they do flower earlier than other fruit trees. Colder weather can affect the flowers and young fruit and mean less pollination because of less bees working. Choose a sheltered site for good success. Though plum trees are mostly grown in southern Britain the trees can be successful in most parts of the UK with careful choice and local knowledge.

A number of plum tree varieties have the advantage of being self fertile. This can be of help if space is limited. They will usually have improved fruiting if they have a pollination partner nearby. Pollination can take place between varieties in the same or an adjacent pollination group.

The plums are available mostly on moderate vigour St Julen A rootstock.

Discount information - the following discounts apply on total order value, excluding carriage.
5% on orders £75+ 10% on orders £150+

Trees are dispatched between late November and March when dormant.

However you are welcome to order now, we will then reserve and be in contact to arrange delivery. We will not debit your card until October.

Belle de Louvain


Belle de Louvain
Large oval red/purple bloomy fruits with yellow flesh. Nice cooked flavour. Makes a large upright tree. Reliable and prolific cropping. Originated in Belguim.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: Mid August

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Blue Tit


Blue Tit
Produces round medium sized blue plums with a light blue bloom. Yellow flesh, quite juicy of good flavour. A cross between a Gage and a plum hence its quality of flavour. Reliable cropper and self fertile. A good garden variety. An English variety Introduced 1938.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: Mid August

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Cambridge Gage


Cambridge Gage
Produces the classic Greengage fruit. An excellent rich flavoured gage. Medium sized round fruits with yellow green bloomy skin and yellow flesh. Sweet and juicy. Partially self fertile.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: Late August

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Coe's Golden Drop


Coe's Golden Drop
An excellent late Gage picked from mid September and extending the plum picking season. Large in size, with golden yellow skin and red spots and lines. The golden yellow flesh is juicy sweet and of rich flavour. Requires pollination. Raised first in Suffolk in late 1700s
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Pollination Group: B
Picking Time: from mid September

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Count Althan's Gage


Count Althan's Gage
A reliably cropping gage of moderate vigour. Large round dark red fruits with a thick blueish bloom Golden yellow flesh. Juicy sweet with a good very enjoyable flavour. Requires pollination. Raised by a gardener to Count Althan between 1850 & 1860.
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Pollination Group: D
Picking Time: Mid August

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Czar


Czar
This plum owes its name to the visit of the Tsar of Russia in 1874. Dark purple skinned fruits with yellow flesh. Shape round / oval and of medium size. A culinary plum but very good as a dessert when ripe. Upright growth with frost resistance. One of the most prolific croppers and self fertile.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: from late July to mid August

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Early Prolific


Early Prolific
One of the earliest plums. Very good as a dessert plum when ripe. Otherwise a good plum for cooking and making jam. Plums round oval dark blue with a heavy bloom and golden yellow flesh. Heavy cropping. Requires pollination. Raised by Thomas Rivers at his nursery in Hertfordshire about 1820..
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: Late July

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Heron


A large, long, oval shaped purple plum with greenish yellow flesh of good quality. A reliable cropper. One of a selection of Plums raised by Rivers Nursery and named after birds.
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Pollination Group: B
Picking Time: Mid August

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Marjories Seeding


Marjories Seeding
One of the latest cropping plums with large deep purple fruits with a blue bloom. Oval in shape. A dual purpose plum with greenish yellow flesh that is quite sweet. Regular and heavy cropping. A late flowering plum and is self fertile. Originated in Berkshire in 1912.

We have now sold out of organic Marjories Seedling on Pixy rootstock but have some non organic available.
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Pollination Group: E
Picking Time: mid to late September

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Opal


Opal
A medium sized reddish purple dessert plum of very good flavour. An early alternative to Victoria. A good reliable self fertile variety that produces a neat round headed tree. Bred at a Swedish Horticultural Research station in 1925.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: from late July to early August

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Oullins Gage


Oullins Gage
Large round oval dual purpose gage plum. Greenish yellow skin with similar coloured flesh. Quite juicy with a pleasant flavour. Self fertile and a good pollinator. Introduced from France in the mid 1800s. On the continent known as 'Reine Claude d'Oullins' after Reine Claude Queen of Francois 1 (1491-1547)
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: early to mid August

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Pershore Emblem


Pershore Emblem
A new plum variety found in Pershore, Worcestershire. It produces plump dark purple skinned fruits with golden flesh in the early half of August. a very nice tasting dessert plum. The parent tree is some 15-20 years old. It grew from a stone with one of the parents likely to be Early Prolific.

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Purple Pershore


Purple Pershore
An excellent heavy cropping culinary plum. Medium sized reddish purple plums, often lop sided with a neck towards the stalk. Self fertile. Arose iaround 1877, its cooking and preserving qualities were soon recognised and became widely grown in the Vale of Evesham.

Now available as smaller trees, approx 1m / 3' tall, hence reduced price.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: mid August

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Sanctus Hubertus


Good quality early dessert plum fruiting from mid July. Early ripening helps to extend the plum season. Medium sized, round/oval shape, dark red skin with a thick blue bloom. Yellow flesh with a good rich flavour. Requires pollination. Introduced in Belgium in 1966.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: late July

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Swan


A useful dual purpose variety ripening in the middle of the plum season. Produces quite round dark red skinned plums with a purple bloom. The flesh is juicy and sweet good for eating aswell as cooking. A good versatile plum! Raised by Rivers Nursery in Hertfordshire around 1900.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: mid August

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Victoria


Victoria
Most well-known plum. Deservedly popular and the main commercial plum in the UK. Though not top quality as a dessert it is very nice to eat when ripe and coks & preserves well. Large in size, oval in shape with pale red skin & yellowish green flesh. Self-fertile, good pollinator. Reliable heavy cropper. First arose in Sussex around 1840
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: late August

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Warwickshire Drooper


Warwickshire Drooper
An old variety that arose in the West Midlands has become well known. Its name is apt - in time having a drooping habit. Large yellow fruits speckled red with yellow juicy flesh. Dual-purpose self fertile variety A strong growing tree that crops regularly and heavily.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: early to mid September

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Yellow Egg


Yellow Egg
A very good quality culinary plum. Was grown much in the Vale of Evesham, an area renowned for its plums. Large yellow fruits. Self-fertile. Hardy, reliable, heavy cropping.
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Pollination Group: C
Picking Time: early to mid August

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