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Denniston's Superb plum trees

Pick: Mid-season    Flowering group: 2   Self-fertile    Uses: Eat fresh    Disease-resistance: Good
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The small round green fruits of Denniston's Superb look like typical green gages, and have the classic rich gage-like flavour. However this variety is now generally considered to be a true European plum, on the basis of its upright growth habit and reliable cropping.

These niceties need not bother the gardener - if you want a green gage without the fussy demands of some other green gages, Denniston's Superb is a good choice. By the standards of fruiting plums it also has particularly attractive blossom.

Rated by the Victorian writer Hogg as "a first-rate dessert plum".

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Denniston's Superb plum trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Medium (2.5m - 3m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - Pixy rootstock £38.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - St.Julien rootstock £38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Medium (2.5m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - Pixy rootstock £30.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)1-year - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock £30.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)2-year bush-trained - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)Half-standard - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock £36.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Summary features of Denniston's Superb

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United States
  • Period of origin: 1850 - 1899
  • Fruit colour: Green - light
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Denniston's Superb

Denniston's Superb is in flowering group 2. Denniston's Superb is self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner, although fruiting may be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby.



How to grow Denniston's Superb plum trees

Although the round green fruit resembles a green gage, Denniston's Superb grows more like a plum tree - upright, quite vigorously, and with good disease resistance. The long whippy branches soon adopt a weeping habit when loaded with fruit.

Denniston's Superb produces a lot of pollen over a long period in the earlier part of the plum blossom season, and is therefore an excellent pollinator for other early and mid-season flowering plum varieties.



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Yellow Pershore



Historical details

Raised by Mr Denniston of Albany, New York, USA in the 19th century.



Botanical name

Prunus domestica Denniston's Superb



Related variety collections

Green Gages and Yellow Gages


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