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Denniston's Superb

Denniston's Superb is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

The small round green fruits of Denniston's Superb look like typical green gages, and have the rich gage-like flavor. However, illustrating how ill-defined the boundary between European plum and gage is, it is now generally considered to be a true European plum, on the basis of its upright growth habit and generally reliable productivity.

These niceties need not both the gardener - if you want a green gage without the fussy demands of some other green gages, this is the one to choose.

Rated by the Victorian writer Hogg as "a first-rate dessert plum".

Trained Denniston's Superb plum trees for sale

Next deliveries

For delivery from December 2025

  • Medium 1-year tree £27.00
    bare-root.

Growing and Training

Although the round green fruit resembles a green gage, Denniston's Superb grows more like a plum tree - upright, quite vigorously, and with good disease resistance. The long whippy branches soon adopt a weeping habit when loaded with fruit.


Denniston's Superb characteristics

  • Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
  • Flowering group2
  • Pollinating othersGood
  • Picking period (southern UK)mid-August
  • CroppingGood
  • Keeping1-3 days
  • Food usesEating freshDual purpose
  • Disease resistanceGood
  • Country of originUnited States
  • Period of origin1850 - 1899
  • Fruit colourGreen - light