Rootstock | St Julien A maiden (moderate) |
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Pollination Group | E |
Type of Plum | Dessert, Self Fertile |
Fruit trees & bushes are dispatched when dormant until late March. With many accumulated orders still any orders placed from February may not be fulfilled. We will do our best to fulfill and no payment will be taken if we cannot supply.
Blue Tit
£19.50
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
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