Plum trees for beginners.

• Gardening skill- Beginner
• Category- Plum trees

Varieties list

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  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
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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.

  • 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
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  Purple Pershore

  

  Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
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  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