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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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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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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 -
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
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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
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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
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Winterbourne Magnum
A 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
The 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