Dual-purpose plums

These versatile plum varieties are good for eating fresh but equally good in the kitchen.

Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
£60.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Czar
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Guinevere
Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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
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
Katinka®
A very early-season dual-purpose dark-blue plum with an excellent flavour.
£60.50buy
- Picking season: Very early
- Self-fertility: 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
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)
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
Reeves
A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Rivers' Early Prolific
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
£60.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Sanctus Hubertus
One of the best cropping early-season plums.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Swan
A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Violetta
A new heavy-cropping self-fertile dwarf plum from Sweden.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
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

How to choose Dual-purpose plums

Victoria is without doubt the supreme English cooking plum, easily identified by its characteristic orange flesh, and the hint of almond flavour it lends to plum jams and patisseries.