Plums, Gages & Damsons

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Mann’s No 1

A number of ‘sports’ have arisen from Victoria. Mann’s No 1 is one of them fruiting a little earlier than the original.

Picking time – mid August
Pollination group – C

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Merryweather Damson

A cross between a damson and a plum. Blue/black bloomy fruits are round oval. The flesh is green yellow with a damson flavour.

Picking time – mid September
Pollination group – C

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Michaelmas Damson

Michaelmas Damson produces small round dark purple damsons. The greenish yellow flesh is sharply astringent so to use needs cooking.

Picking time – mid / late September

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Old Pruin

Smallish plums ovate in shape narrower around the stem basin. Skin reddish purple with a bloom. The flesh is green & sweet of plummy flavour.

Picking time – early-mid August

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stockBrompton maiden (vigorous): In stock £25.50
Opal

A medium sized reddish purple dessert plum of very good flavour. An early alternative to Victoria. A good reliable self fertile variety.

Picking time: early August

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Oullin’s Gage

Large round oval dual purpose gage plum. Greenish yellow skin with similar coloured flesh. Juicy and sweet with a pleasant flavour.

Picking time – early / mid August
Pollination group – D

St Julien A maiden (moderate): Out of stock £25.50
Pershore Emblem

A new plum variety found in Pershore, Worcestershire. It produces plump dark purple skinned fruits with golden flesh. A very nice tasting dessert plum.

Picking time: early / mid August

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Purple Pershore

An excellent heavy cropping culinary plum that is enjoyable consumed fresh. Medium sized reddish purple plums, often lop sided with a neck towards the stalk.

Picking time – early / mid August

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Reeves

Reeves is a dual purpose plum of good quality. Large round plums that ripen by mid August. The red skin reveals yellow flesh that is of good flavour though not especially sweet.

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Rodley Blackjack

Plums often round in shape, but sometimes elongated even flattened. Flesh green with a damson flavour but pleasant consumed fresh.

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stockBrompton maiden (vigorous): In stock £25.50
Rowles Pruin

A dual purpose variety. Round fruits with a blue skin with a bloom and green yellow flesh that is sweet but with a damson sharpness.

Picking time – mid August

Brompton maiden (vigorous): In stockSt Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Sanctus Hubertus

Good quality early dessert plum. Medium sized, round/oval shape, dark red skin with a thick blue bloom. Yellow flesh with a good rich flavour.

Picking time: late July

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Shit Smock

The name suggests the effect of over consumption of this yellow green skinned dual purpose plum! Plums small, usually spherical and sweet with sharpness.

Fruiting time – mid August

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Shropshire Prune

Known as the ‘Greengage of the Damsons’. Grown for a long time in Britain, maybe native. Medium sized long, oval fruits, blue black with a good flavour.

Picking time – mid September
Pollination group – E

St Julien A maiden (moderate): Out of stock £25.50
Swan

Swan produces quite round dark red skinned plums with a purple bloom. The flesh is juicy and sweet good for eating aswell as cooking.

Picking time: early August

Swan: In stock £25.50
Sweet Damson

Different to other damsons ripening earlier and being sweet. elliptical in shape, the dark purple skin has sweet greenish yellow flesh beneath.

Picking time: late August / early September

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Victoria

The most well-known plum. Deservedly popular and the main commercial plum in the UK. Very nice to eat when ripe and cooks & preserves well.

Pollination group: C
Picking time: late August

WUR S766 maiden (semi dwarfing): In stockSt Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50
Warwickshire Drooper

It’s name is apt – in time having a drooping habit. Large yellow fruits speckled red with sweet yellow juicy flesh.

Pollination group: B
Picking time: early September

St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £25.50