Blaisdon Red plum trees
Prunus domestica - Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Blaisdon Red is excellent for making plum jam and produces heavy crops of reddish plums, which turn purple as they ripen.
It is also a good chocie for those will smaller gardens as it has a naturally upright growth habit.
Blaisdon Red plum trees for sale
Bare-root
BR11-year bare-root treeSt. Julien rootstock£38.75
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
Out of stock
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BR21-year bare-root treeBrompton rootstock£41.25
Very large tree
(4m-7m after 10 years)
Out of stock
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Tree specification
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Delivery charges
Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.
Growing and Training
Blaisdon Red has an upright growth habit and is also fairly disease resistant.
Recommended pollinators for Blaisdon Red plum trees
Blaisdon Red is not self-fertile, so you will need another different but compatible variety planted nearby in order to produce fruit.
The following varieties are good pollinators for Blaisdon Red.
If you are not sure about pollination requirements don't hesitate to ask us.
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Cambridge GageCambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Marjorie's SeedlingMarjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
OpalOpal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Shropshire PruneThe definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
JubileeJubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
VictoriaVictoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
CzarCzar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
History
Discovered by Mr Dowding of Blaisdon Village in Gloucestershire.
Blaisdon Red characteristics
- Gardening skillBeginner
- Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
- Flowering group3
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesMild damp climates
- Picking seasonMid
- CroppingHeavy
- Keeping (of fruit)1 week
- Food usesCulinary
- Disease resistanceGood
- Bacterial cankerSome resistance
- Country of originUnited Kingdom
- Blossom colourWhite
- Fruit colourPurple - lightRed - dark
- Flesh colourGolden / Yellow
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More about plum trees
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
