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Our selection of Plum, Gage and Damson trees – dessert, dual purpose and culinary is always widening. Gages are a distinct group of plums being the sweetest. We also have a number of damson tree varieties available. All ripen from late July into September. All grown on our fruit tree nursery.
The Plum season lasts from late July until September with most varieties ripening during August. There are Plum trees to buy to suit everyone. Choose from well known varieties such as Victoria to the less well known but just as desirable varieties. Plums can be divided into three categories:
Dessert – are best eaten fresh. Gages are the sweetest.
Dual purpose – can be cooked or eaten as a dessert plum. There is a wide selection of dual purpose varieties including Czar, Victoria, Marjories Seedling, Heron, etc.
Culinary – best cooked or made into jams. Some are acceptable as a dessert such as Pershore Purple. Usually their fruit are large, so less stones in your desserts!
Damsons ripen mostly into September. Though not edible like plums their uses are varied. We offer a small range of Damson trees for sale that will grow well in most situations.
The Plum, Gage & Damson trees for sale are available as bare rooted one year ‘maiden’ trees being lifted and dispatched when dormant from November onwards. They vary in size according to the variety but many are over 1.8m / 6′ tall and will require reducing in height after planting to encourage branching at a nice height for picking fruit in the future. There is advice on this site and a helpful cultural leaflet will be enclosed with every order.
We offer them on two rootstocks which determines the ultimate size of the trees:
St Julien A – moderate vigour. We grow most on this rootstock.
Brompton – vigorous, suitable for growing into standard trees.
Until recently we have grown some plums on Pixy rootstock (about 85%) of the vigour of St Julien. However we have been unable to source this or a more dwarfing rootstock recently.
When delivering we use 1.8m long cartons. The taller plums and damsons will have to be reduced a little. Having planted the trees you can reduce the height further to the desired height.
You may buy at any time of the year. We keep our availability up to date. We will then contact you to arrange delivery or collection when the plants have become dormant.
Blue Tit
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Produces round medium sized blue plums with a light blue bloom. Yellow flesh, quite juicy of good flavour. A cross between a Gage and a plum hence its quality of flavour. Reliable cropper and self fertile. A good garden variety. An English variety Introduced 1938. Rootstock availability: St Julien A.
Pricing time – early / mid August Pollination group – E
Early Prolific
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
One of the earliest plums. Very good as a dessert plum when ripe. Otherwise a good plum for cooking and making jam. Plums round oval dark blue with a heavy bloom and golden yellow flesh. Heavy cropping. Requires pollination. Raised by Thomas Rivers at his nursery in Hertfordshire about 1820.
Picking time – late July Pollination group – C
Excalibur
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A relatively new dessert plum being introduced in 1989. Produces large roundish plums that are a little longer than wide. Skin colour becomes red orange when ripe with a light pale blue bloom. The pale yellow flesh is sweet & juicy of good flavour. It is not self fertile.
Picking time – Mid August Pollination group – E.
Kirke’s Blue
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A very enjoyable late dessert plum that ripens in the first half of September. Medium sized plums dark purple when ripe with a thick blue bloom that is quite persistant if wiped. The greenish yellow flesh is juicy which comes freely apart from its stone and is of excellent flavour. There is shallow suture that runs from top to bottom of the fruit.
Picking time – early/mid September Pollination group – D
Opal
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A medium sized reddish purple dessert plum of very good flavour. An early alternative to Victoria. A good reliable self fertile variety that produces a neat round headed tree. Bred at a Swedish Horticultural Research station in 1925.
Picking time – early August Pollination Group – C
Pershore Emblem
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
A new plum variety found in Pershore, Worcestershire. It produces plump dark purple skinned fruits with golden flesh in the early half of August. a very nice tasting dessert plum. The parent tree is some 15-20 years old. It grew from a stone with one of the parents likely to be Early Prolific.
Picking time – early / mid August Pollination group – C
Sanctus Hubertus
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
Good quality early dessert plum fruiting from mid July. Early ripening helps to extend the plum season. Medium sized, round/oval shape, dark red skin with a thick blue bloom. Yellow flesh with a good rich flavour. Requires pollination. Introduced in Belgium in 1966.
Picking time – late July Pollination group – C
Warwickshire Drooper
£19.50Availability: In stockOut of stock
An old variety that arose in the West Midlands has become well known. Its name is apt – in time having a drooping habit. Large yellow fruits speckled red with sweet yellow juicy flesh. A self fertile variety A strong growing tree that crops regularly and heavily.
Pricing time – early September Pollination group – B
