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  • Avalon

    Avalon plum trees
    Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Blue Violet

    Blue Violet damson trees
    A traditional Westmorland damson variety - unusually sweet and early-ripening for a damson.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Cambridge Gage

    Cambridge Gage plum trees
    Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Countess

    Countess cherry plum trees
    A dark-red cherry plum, with sweet golden flesh, suitable for eating fresh and cooking.
    • Flowering group: 1
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Czar

    Czar plum trees
    Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Denniston's Superb

    Denniston's Superb plum trees
    Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Early Transparent Gage

    Early Transparent Gage plum trees
    One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Farleigh

    Farleigh damson trees
    One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Flavor King

    Flavor King inter-specific trees
    Flavor King is a pluot (Japanese plum / apricot cross) with large sweet fruit.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 1
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Golden Sphere

    Golden Sphere cherry plum trees
    Golden Sphere is a large yellow Cherry Plum with a sweet plum-like flavour.
    • Flowering group: 1
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Guinevere

    Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Gypsy

    Gypsy cherry plum trees
    Gypsy is a bright red Cherry Plum with a notably sweet flavour.
    • Flowering group: 1
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Haganta

    Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Hauszwetsche German Prune

    Hauszwetsche German Prune plum trees
    Hauszwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Herman

    Herman plum trees
    Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Jubilee

    Jubilee plum trees
    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

  • Marjorie's Seedling

    Marjorie's Seedling plum trees
    Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Merryweather

    Merryweather damson trees
    Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Mirabelle de Nancy

    Mirabelle de Nancy mirabelle trees
    Mirabelle de Nancy is the definitive traditional French Mirabelle, originating from north-east France.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Old Green Gage

    Old Green Gage plum trees
    The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Opal

    Opal plum trees
    Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Oullins Golden Gage

    Oullins Golden Gage plum trees
    The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Reine Claude de Bavay

    Reine Claude de Bavay plum trees
    The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Reine Claude Violette

    A traditional French gage first recorded in the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour. Also known as Purple Gage.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Rivers' Early Prolific

    Rivers' Early Prolific plum trees
    Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Ruby

    Ruby cherry plum trees
    Ruby is a large-fruited modern Cherry Plum, with dark red flesh.
    • Flowering group: 1
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Shepherds Bullace

    Shepherds Bullace damson trees
    A large-fruited bullace, used for cooking and preserves, similar to a damson.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Shropshire Prune

    Shropshire Prune damson trees
    The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Awards: Slow Food - Ark of Taste

  • 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

  • Victoria

    Victoria plum trees
    Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Warwickshire Drooper

    Warwickshire Drooper plum trees
    Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Willingham

    A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Yellow Pershore

    Yellow Pershore plum trees
    Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile