Eating plums

These are the best plums for eating fresh off the tree.

Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Coe's Golden Drop
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Denniston's Superb
Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Early Transparent Gage
One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Excalibur
Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Gordon Castle
A good dessert plum for northern areas due to its hardiness.
£60.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Guinevere
Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Haganta
Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
£62.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Hauszwetsche German Prune
Hauszwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Herman
Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Kirke's Blue
An old-fashioned blue plum with a rich sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Lindsey Gage
Lindsey Gage is a sweet-flavoured green gage, similar to Cambridge Gage.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Malling ElizabethTM
This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
£62.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Marjorie's Seedling
Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Meritare
An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, similar to Opal, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Old Green Gage
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Queen's Crown
Queen's Crown is a dual-purpose red plum with a good sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Reine Claude de Bavay
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Reine Claude Doree
A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Reine Claude Violette
A traditional French gage first recorded in the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour. Also known as Purple Gage.
£60.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Rivers' Early Prolific
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
£60.50 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Seneca
Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Stella's Star
A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.
£62.00 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Thames Cross
An attractive yellow mid-season plum with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Toptaste Kulinaria®
A new blue dessert plum with sweet yellow flesh, and good disease resistance.
£62.00buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Victoria
Best seller
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
£60.50 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Warwickshire Drooper
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Willingham
A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
£60.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3