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Pollination of Pershore plum trees
Your Pershore plum tree is in flowering group 2.
It is self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner, but fruiting will usually be improved if there is a compatible partner of a different variety nearby.
The following varieties should pollinate this plum tree.
(European plums, gages, damsons, cherry plums, mirabelles, bullaces will usually cross-pollinate if their flowering times overlap).
Pollenizer varieties in our catalogue
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability: sold out
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Stock availability: sold out
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent plums.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Stock availability: sold out
One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
Golden Sphere is a large yellow Cherry Plum with a sweet plum-like flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 1
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Gypsy is a bright red Cherry Plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 1
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Haganta is a new large blue plum from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability: sold out
Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Jefferson is a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-sterile
Picking season: Mid-Late seasonStock availability: sold out
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Very-Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
- Half-standard premium pot-grown St.Julien
Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability: sold out
Mirabelle de Nancy is an old traditional Mirabelle, originating from north-east France.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Stock availability: sold out
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Early-Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Ruby is a large-fruited modern Cherry Plum, with dark red flesh.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 1
Partially self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-sterile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability: sold out
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, and outstanding flavour for cooking.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 3
Self-fertile
Picking season: Mid seasonStock availability:
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown VVA-1
- 2-year bush-trained pot-grown St.Julien
- Half-standard premium pot-grown St.Julien
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
Check pollinators >Flowering group: 2
Self-fertile
Picking season: Late seasonStock availability: sold out
Other compatible varieties
We do not sell these varieties but they may be available from other fruit tree nurseries. Use our enquiry form and we will help you find a supplier.
More advice about pollination
Please note that our whilst our system takes many relevant factors into account, it is certainly not completely accurate
Our article on the pollination of fruit trees gives more details of the factors involved in pollination.
Pollination between plum species
European Plums, Gages, Damsons, Bullaces, Mirabelles and Cherry Plums can usually cross-pollinate each other provided their flowering times overlap. However none of these species can cross-pollinate with Japanese Plums.
