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Varieties
4 varieties
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Flowering group
- 3
Picking season
- Mid
Self-fertility
- Self-fertile
Category
- Eating plums
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Categories
Apples
2
Mid-season eating apples
1
Apricots
3
Cherries
1
Sweet cherries
1
Crab apples
1
Damsons
2
Nectarines
2
Peaches
4
Pears
1
Dessert pears
1
Plums
5
Eating plums
4
Cooking plums
1
Dual-purpose plums
3
Stock availability
All
4
In stock
1
Not in stock
3
Form
1-year
1
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
Spindlebush
1
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
Espalier
Fan-trained
Mature size
Very small
Small
Medium
1
Large
1
Very large
Rootstocks
VVA-1
1
?
Wavit
1
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Supplied as
Bare-root
1
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
2
Average
2
Experienced
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
4
Partially self-fertile
2
Not self-fertile
1
Flowering group
?
1
2
1
3
4
4
1
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
1
Average
3
Poor
Fruit bearing
?
Spur-bearer
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
4
Mild damp climates
Warm climates
1
Using
Picking month
June
July
August
September
October
November
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
1
Mid
4
Late
3
Very late
Cropping
?
Heavy
2
Good
2
Light
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
3
1 week
1
2-3 weeks
1-2 months
3 months or more
Food uses
Eating fresh
4
Culinary
4
Traditional cooker
Dual purpose
2
Juice
Hard cider
Drying
Edible fruits
Flavour style (apples)
Sweet/Sharp
1
Sharper
Sweeter
2
Aromatic
Vinous
Cooking result
Puree
2
Textured puree
Keeps shape
Juice style
Sweeter
Sharper
Sweet (cider)
Sharp (cider)
Bittersweet (cider)
Bittersharp (cider)
Cling-stone
Freestone
1
Semi-freestone
Clingstone
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
Average
3
Poor
1
Scab
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Mildew
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Bacterial canker
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Silverleaf
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
1
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Fruit splitting
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
1
Very susceptible
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
Slovakia
Sweden
1
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
2
United States
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
1
1850 - 1899
1
1900 - 1949
1950 - 1999
1
2000
Flowering month
March
April
May
Flesh colour
White
Cream
Pink / Red
Golden / Yellow
Dark red
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green - light
1
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
Orange flush
1
Purple
Purple - light
Red
2
Red - dark
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
Varigated
Yellow
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Fruit size
Small
Average
Large
Very large
Awards
RHS Award of Garden Merit
1
RHS Award of Merit
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Varieties list
Plum trees
Early Transparent Gage
One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Stella's Star
A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
£22.95 - £62.50
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Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile