Plums, Gages & Damsons
Plums, Gages & Damsons
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Merryweather Damson
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00A 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 -
Michaelmas Damson
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00Michaelmas Damson produces small round dark purple damsons. The greenish yellow flesh is sharply astringent so to use needs cooking.
Picking time – mid / late September
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Opal
Pixy maiden (semi dwarfing): In stockSt Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00A 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
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Oullin’s Gage
Pixy maiden (semi dwarfing): In stockSt Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00Large 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 -
Pershore Emblem
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00A 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
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Purple Pershore
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stockBrompton maiden (vigorous): In stock £26.00An 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
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Shit Smock
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stockBrompton maiden (vigorous): In stock £26.00The 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
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Shropshire Prune
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00Known 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 -
Swan
Swan: In stock £26.00Swan 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
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Sweet Damson
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00Different 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
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Victoria
Pixy maiden (semi dwarfing): In stockSt Julien A maiden (moderate): In stockBrompton maiden (vigorous): In stock £26.00The 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
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Warwickshire Drooper
Pixy maiden (semi dwarfing): In stockSt Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00It’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
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Winterbourne Magnum
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00A dual purpose variety. Medium sized plums, oval in shape, with purple to dark red skin with a light bloom and sweet yellow flesh.
Picking time – mid August
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Yellow Egg
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00The original Pershore plum! For culinary use. Was grown much in the Vale of Evesham. Large yellow fruits. Self-fertile. Hardy, reliable, heavy cropping.
Picking time: early / mid August
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Mirabelle de Nancy
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00Related to the Damson, arising in the middle east arriving in France in the middle ages. Small round yellow fruits up to 3cm diameter ripen early August. Its yellow flesh is sweet and richly flavoured. Partially self fertile. Not often cultivated in the UK, flowering early it benefits from shelter and a warm spring.
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Mirabelle Golden Sphere
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00A relatively new variety bred producing good sized yellow spherical fruits with golden flesh that is sweet with a plum like flavour. Good as a dessert fruit it can also be cooked. Though hardy like other Mirabelles it flowers early so benefits from a sheltered situation.
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Mirabelle Gypsy
St Julien A maiden (moderate): In stock £26.00Gypsy is a result of a breeding programme in Ukraine to create improved varieties from naturalized Cherry Plum with its small fruits. Introduced in 1995 it produces larger round bright red fruits with sweet orange flesh. Ripens late August and considered partially self fertile.
