Czar plum trees
£38.75 - £61.50
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- Picking season: Mid Early August
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current) 1993
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
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Czar plum trees for sale
Choose a size - pot-grown
All our pot-grown trees are grown for us to our specification by the Frank P Matthews nursery.
PG12-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree, St. Julien rootstock£61.50
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
Out of stock
Choose a size - bare-root
BR11-year bare-root tree,Wavit rootstock£38.75
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
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BR21-year bare-root tree,St. Julien rootstock£38.75
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
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BR32-year bush-trained bare-root tree,St. Julien rootstock£47.50
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
Out of stock
BR42-year half-standard bare-root tree,St. Julien rootstock£51.00
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
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BR51-year bare-root tree,Brompton rootstock£41.25
Very large tree
(4m-7m after 10 years)
Out of stock
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Tree specification
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Next deliveries
Order now for delivery from 26th May.
Delivery charges
Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.
All about Czar plum trees
Czar is a large dark black/purple plum, with good astringency and ideal for culinary purposes. It can also be eaten fresh if you leave it to get fully ripe. Rated by Hogg (writing in the 1880s) as an "excellent plum".
The blossom is unusually large for a plum.
Growing and Training
Czar is an excellent choice for less than ideal conditions, including areas of heavy rainfall or low light levels. It is reliable, heavy-cropping, self-fertile, and can be grown shade or north-facing situations if necessary. The tree is compact and attractive. Czar has average disease resistance but good frost resistance.
If you want another plum tree to pollinate your Czar then Victoria is a good choice as it is typically in peak flower just a couple of days later than Czar.
Which pollinators are recommended for Czar plum trees?
Czar is self-fertile, so you do not need another variety to pollinate it to produce fruit.
However you are likely to get a better crop if you plant any of the following pollinator varieties nearby.
If you are not sure about pollination requirements just ask us.
FarleighOne of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
JubileeJubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
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.
VictoriaVictoria is the most popular English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
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History
Czar was raised in Hertfordshire in the 1870s, UK, and is a cross between Prince Englebert and Early Rivers, and named in honour of the Emperor of Russia who was visiting England at the time. Czar has been quite widely grown in the UK as a commercial plum variety.
Czar characteristics
- Gardening skillBeginner
- Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
- Flowering group3
- Pollinating othersAverage
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesMild damp climates
- Attractive featuresAttractive fruitAttractive tree / plant
- Picking seasonMid
- CroppingHeavy
- Keeping (of fruit)1 week
- Food usesCulinaryDual purpose
- AwardsRHS AGM (current)
- Country of originUnited Kingdom
- Period of origin1850 - 1899
- Blossom colourWhite
- Fruit colourBlue - dark
You might also like these varieties
HermanHerman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
JubileeJubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Marjorie's SeedlingMarjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
VictoriaVictoria is the most popular English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
British-grown trees
Unlike many garden centres and online retailers, the vast majority of our fruit trees are grown in the UK.
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All our trees are certified under the Plant Healthy scheme, supervised by the Plant Health Alliance.
Other stakeholders include Defra and the RHS.
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Guaranteed fruit trees
When you buy your fruit tree from Orange Pippin Fruit Trees we guarantee it for the first season in your garden while it gets established. If it doesn't grow successfully, we'll either replace it the following season or offer a refund, subject to some conditions.
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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
Please note that plum trees are generally not suitable for growing in containers.
