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  • 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

  • A traditional English damson, which used to be grown in the Vale of Aylesbury.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Belle de Louvain plum trees
    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

  • 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

  • Coe's Golden Drop plum trees
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dittisham Ploughman plum trees
    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 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

  • Edda plum trees
    A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • 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

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

  • 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 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

  • 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 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

  • A traditional 19th century English damson from Nottinghamshire. Also widely-known as Bradley's King.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • 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 is the best white-fleshed nectarine for the UK climate.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Malling Elizabeth plum trees
    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 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

  • 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 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

  • Mesembrine is a sweet-flavoured flat nectarine with yellow flesh.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flesh colour: Golden / Yellow

  • 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 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 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

  • Peregrine peach trees
    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)

  • A new red-flushed apricot which ripens in early July.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Purple Pershore plum trees
    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 plum trees
    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

  • Reeves plum trees
    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 plum trees
    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 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

  • Sanctus Hubertus plum trees
    One of the best cropping early-season plums.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • 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 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

  • 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 plum trees
    A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • 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 plum trees
    Victoria is the most popular 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

  • A new heavy-cropping self-fertile dwarf plum from Sweden.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • 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

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

  • 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