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Amsden June
An early-ripening white-fleshed freestone peach from the USA, ready in June / July in the UK.
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: White
Aprikyra®
A sweet self-fertile apricot-cherry cross, also known as an Aprichery or Cherrycot
- Flowering group: 4
- 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
Avalon Pride
A disease-resistant yellow-fleshed peach, well-suited to growing outdoors in the UK.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Aylesbury Prune
A traditional English damson, which used to be grown in the Vale of Aylesbury.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Belle de Louvain
Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Bellegarde
A well-regarded late-season traditional yellow-flesh peach.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Bergeval®
A modern apricot with pretty orange fruits and a rich sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Blaisdon Red
Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Blue Tit
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- 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
Coe's Golden Drop
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Very late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Compacta®
Featured on BBC Gardeners' World, this is one of the best apricot trees for growing in a small space.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Countess
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 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
Dittisham Ploughman
Dittisham Ploughman is a traditional dual-purpose plum from southern Devon.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Early Moorpark
A traditional English apricot from the 19th century.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Excalibur
Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh.
- Picking season: Mid
- 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
Flavor King
Flavor King is a pluot (Japanese plum / apricot cross) with large sweet fruit.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 1
- Self-fertility: Not 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 Sphere
Golden Sphere is a large yellow Cherry Plum with a sweet plum-like flavour.
- Flowering group: 1
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Gordon Castle
A good dessert plum for northern areas due to its hardiness.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Gorgeous
Gorgeous is a yellow-fleshed peach, well adapted to the English climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
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 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
Hale's Early
Hale's Early is an early-season American peach variety, but with a good track record of being productive in the UK climate.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
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
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
Ingrid
Ingrid is the best Almond variety for the UK climate, suitable for the warmer and drier areas of the UK.
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Not 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
Kea
Kea is a culinary plum from Cornwall, ideal for plum jam.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
King of the Damsons
A traditional 19th century English damson from Nottinghamshire. Also widely-known as Bradley's King.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kioto®
One of the easier apricots for UK growers, attractive orange fruits blushed red. The blossom has some frost resistance.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Kirke's Blue
An old-fashioned blue plum with a rich sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Lindsey Gage
Lindsey Gage is a sweet-flavoured green gage, similar to Cambridge Gage.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Lord Napier
Lord Napier is the best white-fleshed nectarine for the UK climate.
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Malling ElizabethTM
This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
- Picking season: Early
- Flowering group: 2
- Self-fertility: Partially 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
Mesembrine®
Mesembrine is a sweet-flavoured flat nectarine with yellow flesh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
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
Mirabelle de Nancy
Mirabelle de Nancy is the definitive traditional French Mirabelle, originating from north-east France.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Nectarella
Nectarella is a genetic dwarf nectarine, ideal for growing in a pot.
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
Peregrine
Peregrine is the best flavoured white-flesh peach for the UK climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: White
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Pineapple
Despite the name, Pineapple is actually a yellow-fleshed nectarine, ripening in early September.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
Pink Marry
A new red-flushed apricot which ripens in early July.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
Purple Pershore
Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 4
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Queen's Crown
Queen's Crown is a dual-purpose red plum with a good sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Redhaven
Red Haven is a yellow-fleshed peach, popular because it has some resistance to peach-leaf curl.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
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
Reine Claude Doree
A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not 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
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
Robada
Robada is a large-fruited apricot. The orange fruits are usually flushed with red, and will ripen in the middle / late July in the UK.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Rochester
An excellent yellow-fleshed peach, well-suited to the UK climate.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Ruby
Ruby is a large-fruited modern Cherry Plum, with dark red flesh.
- Flowering group: 1
- Self-fertility: Partially 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)
Saturn
Saturn is a distinctive flat peach also known as a donut peach or Chinese peach.
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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
Shepherds Bullace
A large-fruited bullace, used for cooking and preserves, similar to a damson.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: 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
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
Swan
A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.
- Picking season: Late
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
Thames Cross
An attractive yellow mid-season plum with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Flowering group: 3
- Self-fertility: Partially 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
Violetta
A new heavy-cropping self-fertile dwarf plum from Sweden.
- 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
Yellow Pershore
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

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