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Kirke’s Blue
A very enjoyable late dessert plum. Medium sized plums dark purple when ripe. The greenish yellow flesh is juicy and is of excellent flavour.
Picking time: early/mid September
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Marjorie’s Seedling
One of the latest cropping plums with large deep purple fruits with a blue bloom. A dual purpose plum with greenish yellow flesh that is quite sweet.
Picking time: early / mid September
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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 -
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 -
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
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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
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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
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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 -
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
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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
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Rodley Blackjack
Plums often round in shape, but sometimes elongated even flattened. Flesh green with a damson flavour but pleasant consumed fresh.
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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
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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
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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
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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 -
Smith’s Pruin
Produces ovate smallish plums with a dark red brown skin with an easily removed bloom. Sweet flesh with the stone partially clinging.
Picking time – mid August
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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
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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