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Marjorie's Seedling plum trees

Pick: Late-season    Flowering group: 3   Self-fertile    Uses: Eat fresh | Cookery    Disease-resistance: Good
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  • Marjorie's Seedling plum tree
  • Marjorie's Seedling plum tree

Marjorie's Seedling is the main late-season commercial plum grown in the UK. It is an excellent culinary plum, and very good for eating fresh when fully ripe.

Marjorie's Seedling is attractive to commercial growers because it is vigorous, hardy, disease resistant, and a reliable and heavy cropper. These qualities mean it is also ideal for the garden or small orchard - and by growing your own you can also get a far better flavour than is possible for the commercial grower - the trick is to leave the plums on the tree longer. And if you like fresh plums, there are not many other ones around this late in the season.

The fruit is large, plum-shaped, and purple, becoming blue-black when fully ripe, with a heavy bloom - overall very attractive. The flesh is greenish-yellow, juicy, quite coarse, and noticeably veined. The stone is clinging.

For eating fresh make sure you leave the fruit on the tree as long as possible to get the best flavour - it is very pleasant straight from the tree on a cold autumn morning!

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Marjorie's Seedling 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 £39.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - St.Julien rootstock £39.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Medium (2.5m)1-year - Bare-root - Krymsk/VVA-1 rootstock £32.00
Medium (2.5m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - Pixy rootstock £32.00
Medium (2.5m - 3m)2-year - Bare-root - Pixy rootstock £33.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)1-year - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock £29.00
Large (3m - 3.5m)1-year bush-trained - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock £31.00
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 £37.00

Partially-trained fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

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Large (3m - 3.5m)Fan/espalier part-trained - Bare-root - St.Julien rootstock £38.00

Trained fruit trees - pot-grown (Delivery start September 2013)

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Large (3m - 3.5m)Fan 4-arm -12L pot - St.Julien rootstock £52.00 Sold out
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**All prices include delivery (except certain fan-trained or espalier-trained or mature trees). We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

2-year pot-grown Fan-trained and Espalier trees: Prices of these trees do NOT include delivery as they require special delivery arrangements. Delivery is not possible to all areas. Click here for details or contact us to find out more. These restrictions do not apply to our 1-year part-trained trees or cordons.

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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Alternatives to Marjorie's Seedling plum trees

Alternative fruit trees - Guinevere plum trees
Late-season  (3)  SF  
Eat | Cook 

Guinevere plum trees

An excellent late-season plum, arguably better for eating fresh than Marjorie's Seedling.




Summary features of Marjorie's Seedling

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1900 - 1949
  • Fruit colour: Purple
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Popular variety

Climate



Pollination guide for Marjorie's Seedling

Marjorie's Seedling is in flowering group 3. Marjorie's Seedling 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. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other plum trees.



How to grow Marjorie's Seedling plum trees

Marjorie's Seedling flowers relatively late in the spring, so is a good choice for areas where frost is a problem, or for an east-facing situation. It is vigorous, hardy, highly disease resistant, easy to grow, and relatively untroubled by disease.



Varieties with similar picking times to Marjorie's Seedling

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Guinevere
Reine Claude de Bavay
Seneca
Thames Cross
Warwickshire Drooper

Valor



Historical details

Berkshire, UK. 1912.



Botanical name

Prunus domestica Marjorie's Seedling



Related variety collections

Small orchard selection, Fruit trees for North West Scotland, Mother's Day Collection


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