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Plum varieties which are great for cooking with

Czar, a dark blue plum, is perhaps the best known English cooking plum, but Purple Pershore and Yellow Pershore, and Blaisdon Red are all superb for plum jam.

Adventurous cooks might want to experiment with plum cookery traditions from elsewhere. Try Hauszetsche, a kind of "zwetchen" plum popular in central Europe, and characterised by a very dry sweet flesh

Please note that plum trees are generally not suitable for growing in containers.

  • Buy Belle de Louvain plum trees
    Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.
    £38.75buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Blaisdon Red plum trees
    Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
    £41.25buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Czar plum trees
    Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
    £51.00buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Dittisham Ploughman plum trees
    Dittisham Ploughman is a traditional dual-purpose plum from southern Devon.
    £34.95buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Hauszwetsche German Prune plum trees
    Hauszwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.
    £41.25 - £61.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • A very early-season dual-purpose dark-blue plum with an excellent flavour.
    • Picking season: Very early
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Buy Kea plum trees
    Kea is a culinary plum from Cornwall, ideal for plum jam.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Kirke's Blue plum trees
    An old-fashioned blue plum with a rich sweet flavour.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Purple Pershore plum trees
    Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
    £38.75buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Sanctus Hubertus plum trees
    One of the best cropping early-season plums.
    £38.75buy
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Swan plum trees
    A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.
    £38.75buyBest seller
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Yellow Pershore plum trees
    Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.
    £47.50 - £51.00buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4