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Varieties
38 varieties
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Categories
Apricots
8
Cherries
1
Damsons
4
Inter-specific trees
3
Mirabelles
1
Plums
26
Eating plums
21
Cooking plums
4
Dual-purpose plums
15
Japanese plums
1
Stock availability
All
38
Available to pre-order
38
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
38
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
1
Spindlebush
1
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
Medium
4
Large
35
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
36
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Very dwarf
2
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M9
46
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Dwarf
4
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Quince C
3
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VVA-1
33
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Quince Adams
1
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Quince Eline
15
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Quince Eline interstem
5
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Gisela 5
20
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Weigi 2
3
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M26
58
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Semi-dwarf
3
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Weigi 1
3
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Gisela 6
1
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Wavit
38
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Weiwa
14
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M116
54
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MM106
112
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Colt
16
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Own-roots
3
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Quince A
37
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Semi-vigorous
87
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St. Julien
84
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Torinel
4
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Quince A interstem
6
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MM111
30
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Pyrodwarf
34
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M25
60
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Pyrus c. Kirchensaller
23
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Brompton
20
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F12/1
7
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Pyrus c.
1
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Bare-root
38
12L pot
1
Growing
Gardening skill
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Beginner
18
Average
16
Experienced
4
Self-fertility
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Self-fertile
27
Partially self-fertile
4
Not self-fertile
7
Flowering group
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1
1
2
9
3
23
4
5
5
6
Pollinating others
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Good
5
Average
31
Poor
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
37
Mild damp climates
15
Warm climates
11
Using
Picking season
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Very early
1
Early
11
Mid
13
Late
12
Very late
Cropping
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Heavy
18
Good
16
Light
4
Keeping (of fruit)
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Does not keep
1-3 days
17
1 week
20
2-3 weeks
1-2 months
3 months or more
Food uses
Eating fresh
32
Culinary
28
Traditional cooker
Dual purpose
13
Juice
Hard cider
Drying
1
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
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Good
16
Average
11
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Scab (Apple and Pear)
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Powdery mildew
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Fire blight
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Bacterial canker
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
1
Some susceptibility
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
2
Canada
1
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
5
Germany
5
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
1
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
1
South Korea
Sweden
3
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
14
United States
4
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1800 - 1849
6
1850 - 1899
5
1900 - 1949
8
1950 - 1999
13
2000
4
Flowering month
January
February
March
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
32
Cream
Pink - light
1
Pink
Pink - dark
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
11
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
2
Green - light
3
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
3
Orange / Red
2
Orange flush
Pink
Purple
5
Purple - light
2
Red
5
Red - dark
4
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
Varigated
Yellow
3
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
Cream
1
Golden / Yellow
6
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
3
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
8
RHS AGM (former)
2
RHS AM
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
1
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Varieties list
Aprikyra
®
A sweet self-fertile apricot-cherry cross, also known as an Aprichery or Cherrycot
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Aprimira
®
Aprimira is a sweet self-fertile apricot-mirabelle cross, also known as a miracot.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Aprisali
®
A sweet self-fertile apricot - plum cross, also known as an Aprium.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Avalon
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
Bergeron
Bergeron is the classic French apricot variety, and a common sight in French summer markets.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Blue Violet
A traditional Westmorland damson variety - unusually sweet and early-ripening for a damson.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Cambridge Gage
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
Czar
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 is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Farleigh
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
Goldcot
One of the most reliable apricots for the UK climate, with good winter hardiness.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Golden Glow
A modern English apricot, found growing as a chance seedling near Worcester.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: 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
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 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
Helena du Roussillon
®
A traditional French apricot variety, grown in the Languedoc-Roussillon area.
Picking season: Late
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Herman
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 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
Katinka
®
A very early-season dual-purpose dark-blue plum with an excellent flavour.
Picking season: Very early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Marjorie's Seedling
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
Meritare
An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, similar to Opal, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Merryweather
Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees.
Picking season: Mid
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Methley
Methley is a Japanese plum (Prunus salicina), as opposed to the more usual European plums (Prunus domestica).
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 1
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Old Green Gage
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 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
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
Reeves
A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Reine Claude de Bavay
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
Rivers' Early Prolific
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
Sanctus Hubertus
One of the best cropping early-season plums.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Seneca
Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Shropshire Prune
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
Tomcot
Tomcot is a modern apricot variety with large fruits, suitable for planting in warm dry areas of the UK.
Picking season: Early
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Toptaste Kulinaria
®
A new blue dessert plum with sweet yellow flesh, and good disease resistance.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Victoria
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 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