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Willingham plum trees

Prunus domestica
Willingham is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators
A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.

Willingham plum trees for sale

Pot-grown

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 VVA-1 rootstock £47.00
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  • PG22-year bush-trained 12L pot-grown tree St. Julien rootstock £46.00
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Bare-root

  • BR11-year bare-root tree VVA-1 rootstock £30.00
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  • BR22-year bush-trained bare-root tree VVA-1 rootstock £37.75
    Medium tree (2m-3m after 10 years)
  • BR31-year bare-root tree St. Julien rootstock £28.50
    Large tree (3m-4m after 10 years)
  • BR42-year bush-trained bare-root tree St. Julien rootstock £36.00
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  • BR52-year half-standard bare-root tree St. Julien rootstock £39.00
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Willingham is a traditional English Green Gage, and considered by enthusiasts as the finest of all plums that can be grown in the UK.

It has the classic sweet melon-like flavour which marks out the green gages as distinct from regular plums (although nowadays plums and gages are categorised as the same species - Prunus domestica).

It is almost certainly a seedling of Old Green Gage, and therefore a sibling of Cambridge Gage - in fact they are hard to tell apart, but all possess first-rate flavours.

How to grow

Willingham is partially self-fertile, like Cambridge Gage and Old Green Gage, and in a good spring can set a full crop. However as with all gages a pollination partner (of a different variety) is useful to improve cropping.

Advice on fruit tree pollination.

History

Discovered in Willingham, a village in Cambridgeshire, in the 19th century. It is almost certainly a seedling of Old Green Gage. Interestingly it has only come to prominence relatively recently, and was seemingly little known in the region where it arose.

Willingham characteristics

Growing

  • Gardening skillBeginner
  • Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
  • Flowering group3
  • Pollinating othersAverage
  • Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesMild damp climatesWarm climates
  • WildlifeRHS Plants for Pollinators

Using

  • Picking monthAugust
  • Picking seasonLate
  • CroppingGood
  • Keeping (of fruit)1-3 days
  • Food usesEating fresh

Identification

  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Period of origin1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colourGreen - light
  • Fruit sizeAverage