Toptaste Kulinaria® plum trees
Prunus domestica
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- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Toptaste Kulinaria is a new blue-skinned late-season dessert plum with sweet yellow flesh. The plums have a rich sweet flavour.
It was developed with disease-resistance in mind and has some resistance to plum pox / sharka virus.
Although primarily a variety for eating fresh off the tree, the plums are very useful in the kitchen - pick them slightly under-ripe for best results.
Toptaste Kulinaria plum trees for sale
Pot-grown
All our pot-grown trees are grown for us to our specification by the Frank P Matthews nursery.
All pot-grown trees are suitable for planting out in the garden, some are suitable for growing in containers.
PG12-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree, St. Julien rootstock£63.00
Grown for us by Frank P Matthews nursery
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
Bare-root
BR11-year bare-root tree,Weiwa rootstock£43.75
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
BR21-year bare-root tree,Wavit rootstock£38.75
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
BR31-year bare-root tree,St. Julien rootstock£38.75
Large tree
(3m-5m after 10 years)
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Tree specification
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Tree sizes and forms
Pre-ordering
Pre-order now for delivery in September 2025
Delivery charges
Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.
Growing and Training
Toptaste Kulinaria ripens in mid-August. It is partially self-fertile so does not need another pollinator, but cropping will be improved if there are other plum trees nearby.
The plums can be picked over an extended period - useful for amateur growers who do not want to deal with a glut of plums all at once.
History
Toptaste Kulinaria won a silver award at the UK Horticultural Trades Association National Plant Show in 2016.
Toptaste Kulinaria characteristics
- Gardening skillAverage
- Self-fertilityPartially self-fertile
- Flowering group3
- Pollinating othersAverage
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesMild damp climates
- Picking seasonMid
- CroppingGood
- Keeping (of fruit)1 week
- Food usesEating freshDual purpose
- Country of originGermany
- Period of origin2000
- Blossom colourWhite
- Fruit colourBlue - dark
- Flesh colourGolden / Yellow
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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In addition, all our trees are certified under the Plant Healthy scheme, supervised by the Plant Health Alliance.
Other stakeholders include Defra and the RHS. The scheme aims to improve UK biosecurity by setting standards
for all growers and retailers involved in selling plants in the UK.
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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
Eating plums, also known as dessert plums, offer some of the sweetest flavours possible in the temperate garden, rivaling the best of tropical fruits. We particularly rate Avalon, Oullins Gage, Cambridge Gage, Coe's Golden Drop, Old Green Gage, and Opal.
There are several things you can do, as the gardener, to enhance the flavours of these sweet fruits. Firstly, try to plant the tree in full sun - because it is sunlight that ripens the fruits and ensures the maximum sweetness. Secondly, thin the fruitlets in June. To be fair, thinning plum fruitlets is a tedious job, but it is well worth doing because most plum varieties set too many fruits, which leads to poorer fruit size and bland flavours. So if you think your tree has over-set, carefully prune off the developing fruitlets, and don't be surprised if you end up removing half of them or even more - the tree will reward you later on.
