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Plums - Eating

Plum varieties which really benefit from fan-training to enhance their flavours for eating fresh.

  • Avalon plum trees
    Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Blue Tit plum trees
    Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Cambridge Gage plum trees
    Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Denniston's Superb plum trees
    Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Golden Transparent Gage plum trees
    A traditional English gage, noted for its very sweet flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Herman plum trees
    Herman is an excellent and versatile early-season plum variety, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Jubilee plum trees
    Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Late Muscatelle plum trees
    A traditional French dessert variety, highly-regarded for its very sweet plums.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Old Green Gage plum trees
    Old Green Gage is considered by many to be the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Opal plum trees
    Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Oullins Gage plum trees
    Oullins Gage is easy to grow, and the flavours really benefit from being trained as a fan on a sunny wall.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Reine Claude de Bavay plum trees
    The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Victoria plum trees
    The most popular English plum variety, can be eaten fresh or used in the kitchen.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3