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- Plums - Cooking7
Plums - Eating
Plum varieties which really benefit from fan-training to enhance their flavours for eating fresh.
Avalon
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
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Cambridge Gage
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
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
A traditional English gage, noted for its very sweet flavour.- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Herman
Herman is an excellent and versatile early-season plum variety, blue/purple with yellow flesh.- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Jubilee
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
A traditional French dessert variety, highly-regarded for its very sweet plums.- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Old Green Gage
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
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
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
The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Victoria
The most popular English plum variety, can be eaten fresh or used in the kitchen.- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3