Plum Trees European
Plum trees in this list are among the sweetest plums in our catalogue, originating in Europe, and include the famous Green Gage plum, and also the many different types of Prune plum trees
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Dwarf Sugar Plum
Dwarf Sugar plum is grafted to dwarfing rootstock, to give a two metre high tree. Perhaps the most sought after of all our European plums. Small rich sweet fruits, good for both cooking and fresh eating, much loved and remembered by older folks from childhood, and still one of the nicest fresh eating plums
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Sloe plum
Out of stock
Sloe is a small plum, relatively undomesticated, plenty of flavour, often used for soaking in Gin as a preserve, prized in cooking, very hardy tree, we offer it as a grafted tree, not a sucker
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Kirsche plum
Kirsche plum is a rich sweet yellow fleshed plum, used traditionally for distilling plum liqueurs, develops complex flavours in cooking, and also good for preserves, not bad fresh eating either, ripens early
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Purple Gage plum
Purple Gage plum is just about the latest plum to ripen in our collection - it can sometimes hang on the tree for nearly a month after everything else has gone. Purple gage are small plums, sweet yellow flesh, a real season extender Ripen: Feb/March Pollinate with: partially self fertile
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Coles Golden Gage plum
Coles Golden Gage plum is an upright and branching tree with large sweet fruit with green/yellow skin and golden flesh, sweet plum, freestone, recommended pollinators include Green Gage, President, Damson. Used for eating, preserving, jam Ripens: late February
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Jefferson plum
Jefferson plum is named after the American President with a keen interest in things agricultural and who died four years before Jefferson was discovered, a plum with yellow green skin and bronze spots, juicy yellow flesh, believed by some to be part of the 'gage' plum family Ripens: February Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Zwetschge plum
Out of stock
Rich and sweet plum originating in the Eastern Bloc, Zwetschge plum is traditionally distilled to make liquor, but is also beautiful sweet eating fresh fruit with amazing deep coloured greeny yellow flesh and dark purple skin, cooks to a rich compote, earlier than a lot of other European plums Ripens: Jan/Feb Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Victoria plum
Out of stock
Larger plum from England, and that country’s most popular and most well known cooker. The Victoria plum is still sought after by many today, stews well, bottles well, sets a heavy crop. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Robe de Sargent prune plum
Robe de Sargent prunes bear small elongated fruit, with dark blue to purple skin, yellow juicy, very sweet flesh - Freestone.Very commonly used for dried fruit, also eaten fresh and used for preserves and jam making MATURITY: Mid to late February (Mid season) Pollinate with: D’Agen Prune, Greengage, and Coe’s Golden Drop
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Splendour prune plum
The Splendour prune plum which is the result of breeding the D’Agen and the Hungarian prune, has very high sugar content at 11%, (compared to 8% for the French Prune), long oval shape, sweet yellow flesh. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Mirabelle plum
The Mirabelle plum is a culinary plum coming back into popularity in recent years, with many chefs bringing them back onto the menu, smaller, sweet yellow round fruits, reaching fullness of flavour when cooked, sold in abundance in France and Belgium, a real antique – first recorded in France in 1675. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Green Gage plum
Dwarf Green Gage plum is offered for the first time this year - it is a genuinely dwarfed two metre plum tree, grafted to the Green Gage plum. It is an amazing eating experience – sweet and very richly flavoured but balanced with perfect amount of acidity. Singled out by the author of the Australian Fruit Tree book, Louis Glowinski, as his favourite fruit overall (a big rave, given his book covers a fairly significant proportion of the fruit kingdom) but this is a great plum, Ripens: February Pollinate with: Coe's Golden Drop, D'Agen
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Green Gage plum
Green Gage plum is an amazing eating experience – sweet and very richly flavoured but balanced with perfect amount of acidity. Singled out by the author of the Australian Fruit Tree book, Louis Glowinski, as his favourite fruit overall (a big rave, given his book covers a fairly significant proportion of the fruit kingdom) but this is a great plum, rootstock : Myrobolan plum. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Coe's Golden Drop, D'Agen
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Dwarf Damson plum
Dwarf plum tree, two metre high version of the damson plum, these plums are once again having a resurgence of popularity amongst gourmets, who prize them for their high quality when cooked, the Damson plum makes fine sauces and jams, and great meat accompaniments, a small sized plum, hardy trees bear late ripening fruits, has some self fertility, so sets a fair crop on its own. Ripens: March Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Damson plum
These plums are once again having a resurgance of popularity amongst gourmets, who prize them for their high quality when cooked, the Damson plum makes fine sauces and jams, and great meat accompaniments, a small sized plum, hardy trees bear late ripening fruits, has some self fertility, so sets a fair crop on its own. Ripens: March Pollinate with: Self fertile
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Dwarf D’Agen prune plum
Dwarf D'Agen French prune plum is a dwarf two metre plum tree, it is the classic granddaddy of the prune plums, rich and sweet, purple skin with yellow flesh, wonderful fresh eating, and can also be dried on the tree or picked off and sat on a plate to dry to a prune, best pollinator for Green Gage, offered on dwarfing rootstock. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Coe's Golden Drop, Green Gage
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D’Agen French prune plum
D'Agen French prune plum is a classic granddaddy of the prune plums, rich and sweet, purple skin with yellow flesh, wonderful fresh eating, and can also be dried on the tree or picked off and sat on a plate to dry to a prune, best pollinator for Green Gage, offered on Myrobolan rootstock. Ripens: February Pollinate with: Coe's Golden Drop, Green Gage
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Dwarf Coe’s Golden Drop plum
Dwarf plum tree - this tree consists of the traditional Coe's Golden Drop plum, grafted onto a genuine two metre high rootstock; the plum is a very late season ripener, large oval yellow plum, firm juicy sweet flesh, excellent apricot like flavour, good for drying, bred from two older classic plums – Green Gage and White Magnum Bonum, potentially pollinated by these two, or give D’Agen or President a try Ripens: Feb/March Pollinate with: Green Gage, D'Agen, Damson, Angelina
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Coe’s Golden Drop plum
Coe's Golden Drop plum is a very late season ripener, large oval yellow plum, firm juicy sweet flesh, excellent apricot like flavour, good for drying, bred from two older classic plums – Green Gage and White Magnum Bonum, potentially pollinated by these two, or give D’Agen or President a try, comes on Myrobolan rootstock. Ripens: Feb/March Pollinate with: Green Gage, D'Agen, Damson, Angelina
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Dwarf President plum
Out of stock
Dwarf President plum is offered for the first time this year. President is a large blue/purple plum raised at the start of the 20th century by the Rivers Nursery, in Hertfordshire, England, fruit are a very large size. For a long-time was one of the latest-ripening plums, providing fresh fruit at a time when most other plums were finished. Good for eating fresh or culinary use, found in many old gardens and orchards throughout England. The tree grows with a distinct upright compact shape, tendency to produce heavy crops means that branches can easily snap under the weight of fruit, Pollinates with Coes Golden Drop, Jefferson, Mirabelle, Victoria,
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Dwarf King Billy plum
Dwarf King Billy plum is offered for the first time this year as a properly dwarfing two metre tree, dwarf King Billy bears larger sized plums with dark purple skin and heavy bloom, sweet juicy yellow flesh, clingstone, best pollinator for Angelina plum Ripens: Jan/Feb