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Varieties
71 varieties
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Categories
Almonds
1
Apricots
7
Cherry plums
4
Cherries
1
Damsons
6
Inter-specific trees
3
Mirabelles
6
Nectarines
4
Peaches
6
Plums
41
Eating plums
29
Cooking plums
10
Dual-purpose plums
17
Japanese plums
1
Stock availability
All
71
In stock
71
Not in stock
0
Form
1-year
58
1-year bush-trained
2-year
8
2-year bush-trained
40
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
23
Premium half-standard
8
2-year top-worked
1
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
1/4 standard
Each
Mature size
Very small
Small
2
Medium
Large
69
Very large
N/A
Rootstocks
M27
35
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M9
32
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Dwarf
3
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Quince Eline
12
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Gisela 5
15
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M26
46
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Semi-dwarf
2
?
Gisela 6
1
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Wavit
22
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Weiwa
11
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M116
23
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MM106
92
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Colt
11
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Own-roots
1
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Quince A
23
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Semi-vigorous
75
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St. Julien
71
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MM111
9
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Pyrodwarf
23
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M25
37
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Pyrus c. Kirchensaller
20
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Brompton
17
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F12/1
7
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Supplied as
Bare-root
60
12L pot
40
8L-9L pot
1
7L pot
5
Growing
Gardening skill
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Beginner
35
Average
20
Experienced
12
Self-fertility
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Self-fertile
39
Partially self-fertile
14
Not self-fertile
16
Flowering group
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1
5
2
13
3
40
4
10
5
6
Pollinating others
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Good
5
Average
54
Poor
2
Fruit bearing
Spur-bearer
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
64
Mild damp climates
23
Warm climates
24
Using
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
11
Mid
32
Late
22
Very late
1
Cropping
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Heavy
25
Good
32
Light
10
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
35
1 week
30
2-3 weeks
1-2 months
3 months or more
1
Food uses
Eating fresh
51
Culinary
50
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
16
Juice
Hard cider
Drying
Pickling
Edible fruits
Not suitable for humans
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
29
Average
17
Poor
2
Canker
Very resistant
Some resistance
3
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
3
Some susceptibility
1
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
6
Very susceptible
1
Woolly aphid
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
2
Canada
1
China
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
8
Germany
4
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
1
Russia
Slovakia
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
4
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
4
United Kingdom
32
United States
8
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
2
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1
1800 - 1849
11
1850 - 1899
8
1900 - 1949
13
1950 - 1999
18
2000
7
Flowering month
January
February
March
1
April
May
June
December
Blossom colour
White
53
Cream
Pink - light
1
Pink
1
Pink - dark
6
Red - dark
Crimson
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
13
Bronze
Brown
Crimson
Gold
Green
1
Green - light
5
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
1
Orange
2
Orange / Red
9
Orange flush
1
Pink
Purple
8
Purple - light
6
Red
9
Red - dark
6
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
Varigated
Yellow
7
Yellow / Orange
1
Yellow / Red
White
Flesh colour
White
1
Cream
Golden / Yellow
21
Orange
Pink / Red
Dark red
1
Awards
RHS AGM (current)
10
RHS AGM (former)
6
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
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
Bergeron
Bergeron is the classic French apricot variety, and a common sight in French summer markets.
Picking season: Mid
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 Elizabeth
TM
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
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 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
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
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