Plums for cooking with

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  Avalon

  Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 2partly self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Belle de Louvain

  Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Cooking 
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  Cambridge Gage

  Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3partly self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Coe's Golden Drop

  Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.  compare
  From £19.95 to £31.50
  Flowering: 2

  Pick: Very late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Czar  Best seller

  Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Early-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Denniston's Superb

  Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 2self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Early Transparent Gage

  One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent plums.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Edda

  A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 2

  Pick: Early-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Guinevere

  Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Haganta®

  Haganta is a new large blue plum from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.  compare
  From £20.45
  Flowering: 3partly self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Haus-Zwetsche  Best seller

  Haus-zwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 4self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Herman

  Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 2self-fertile

  Pick: Early-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Jefferson

  Jefferson is a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 2

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Jubilee  Best seller

  Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.  compare
  From £19.95 to £37.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Lindsey Gage

  Lindsey Gage is a sweet-flavoured green gage, similar to Cambridge Gage.  compare
  From £33.95
  Flowering: 3

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Marjorie's Seedling  Best seller

  Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Meritare

  An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 3

  Pick: Early-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Old Green Gage  Best seller

  The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Opal  Best seller

  Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Early-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Oullins Golden Gage  Best seller

  The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 4self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Purple Pershore

  Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 4self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Reine Claude de Bavay

  The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.  compare
  From £33.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Reine Claude Doree

  A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.  compare
  From £33.95
  Flowering: 3

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Reine Claude Violette

  A traditional French gage first recorded in the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour. Also known as Purple Gage.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 3partly self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Rivers' Early Prolific

  Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 2self-fertile

  Pick: Early-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Seneca

  Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavour.  compare
  From £19.95
  Flowering: 3

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating 
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  Stella's Star®

  A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.  compare
  From £20.45 to £34.45
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Victoria  Best seller

  Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, and outstanding flavour for cooking.  compare
  From £19.95 to £55.95
  Flowering: 3self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Cooking 
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  Warwickshire Drooper

  Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.  compare
  From £31.50
  Flowering: 2self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Willingham

  A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 3partly self-fertile

  Pick: Late-season

  Uses: Eating | Cooking 
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  Yellow Pershore

  Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.  compare
  From £19.95 to £33.95
  Flowering: 4self-fertile

  Pick: Mid-season

  Uses: Cooking