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Plum trees for beginners.
Easy plum trees, ideal for beginners.
22 varieties
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Gardening skill
- Beginner
Category
- Plum trees
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Categories
Apples
45
Early eating apples
6
Mid-season eating apples
10
Late eating apples
14
Cooking apples
12
Dual-purpose apples
3
Cherry plums
3
Cherries
6
Sweet cherries
5
Sour cherries
1
Cider apples
2
Crab apples
14
Damsons
7
Inter-specific trees
1
Hazels
1
Mirabelles
3
Mulberries
4
Pears
7
Dessert pears
6
Asian pears
1
Perry pears
2
Plums
22
Eating plums
16
Cooking plums
7
Dual-purpose plums
10
Juneberries
2
Stock availability
All
22
In stock
1
Not in stock
21
Form
1-year
1
1-year bush-trained
2-year
2-year bush-trained
Spindlebush
2-year half-standard
Premium half-standard
2-year top-worked
2-year (1.75m)
Cordon-trained
Premium cordon
Espalier
Fan-trained
Mature size
Very small
Small
Medium
Large
Very large
1
Rootstocks
Brompton
1
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Supplied as
Bare-root
1
Growing
Gardening skill
?
Beginner
22
Average
15
Experienced
4
Self-fertility
?
Self-fertile
13
Partially self-fertile
2
Not self-fertile
7
Flowering group
?
1
2
8
3
10
4
4
5
6
Pollinating others
?
Good
3
Average
18
Poor
Fruit bearing
?
Spur-bearer
Free-spurring
Partial tip-bearer
Tip-bearer
Climate suitability
Temperate climates
22
Mild damp climates
9
Warm climates
5
Using
Picking month
June
July
August
3
September
2
October
November
Picking season
?
Very early
Early
4
Mid
12
Late
6
Very late
Cropping
?
Heavy
12
Good
9
Light
1
Keeping (of fruit)
?
Does not keep
1-3 days
11
1 week
11
2-3 weeks
1-2 months
3 months or more
Food uses
Eating fresh
18
Culinary
18
Traditional cooker
1
Dual purpose
4
Juice
Hard cider
Drying
Edible fruits
Flavour style (apples)
Sweet/Sharp
4
Sharper
2
Sweeter
5
Aromatic
Vinous
Cooking result
Puree
1
Textured puree
Keeps shape
Juice style
Sweeter
Sharper
Sweet (cider)
Sharp (cider)
Bittersweet (cider)
Bittersharp (cider)
Cling-stone
Freestone
1
Semi-freestone
1
Clingstone
4
Problems
Disease resistance
?
Good
14
Average
5
Poor
Scab
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Canker
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
3
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Mildew
?
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Bacterial canker
Some resistance
2
Some susceptibility
Silverleaf
Very resistant
1
Some resistance
5
Some susceptibility
1
Very susceptible
Peach leaf curl
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Fruit splitting
Very resistant
Some resistance
Some susceptibility
Very susceptible
Identification
Country of origin
Australia
Belgium
1
Canada
Czech Republic
France
1
Germany
1
Hungary
Ireland
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
1
Russia
Slovakia
Sweden
3
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom
12
United States
2
Period of origin
1550 - 1599
1600 - 1649
1650 - 1699
1700 - 1749
1750 - 1799
1
1800 - 1849
6
1850 - 1899
3
1900 - 1949
4
1950 - 1999
5
2000
Flowering month
March
April
May
Flesh colour
White
Cream
Pink / Red
Golden / Yellow
3
Dark red
Fruit colour
Black
Blue - dark
3
Crimson
Gold
Green
Green - light
3
Green / Red
Green / Yellow
Orange
Orange / Red
1
Orange flush
Purple
6
Purple - light
1
Red
4
Red - dark
1
Red / Black
Red / Green
Red striped
Russet
Varigated
Yellow
4
Yellow / Orange
Yellow / Red
White
Fruit size
Small
1
Average
2
Large
1
Very large
Awards
RHS Award of Garden Merit
7
RHS Award of Merit
RHS 1st class
Slow Food - Ark of Taste
Varieties list
Plum trees
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
Plum trees
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
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Blaisdon Red
Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
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Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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Czar
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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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
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Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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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
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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
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Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 2
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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Kea
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Picking season: Early
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Purple Pershore
Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
Picking season: Mid
Flowering group: 4
Self-fertility: Self-fertile
Plum trees
Queen's Crown
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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
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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
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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
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Willingham
A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
Picking season: Late
Flowering group: 3
Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
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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