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Blue Tit

Blue Tit plums
Blue Tit has received the RHS Award of Garden MeritBlue Tit is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4

Blue Tit is a popular English garden dual-purpose plum. It is perhaps easiest to think of it is as a more refined version of Czar, one of its parents. It inherits that variety's reliability, self-fertility and good croppping, as well as its excellent culinary properties.

However its other parent is Green Gage, arguably the best flavoured of all plums, and some of that gage-like flavour is apparent in Blue Tit when fully ripe.

Trained Blue Tit plum trees for sale

Sorry we have not produced any trees of this variety this season.

    Growing and Training

    Whilst its Czar parentage may suggest it can be grown in almost any situation, it is worth remembering that its other parent is the more temperamental Green Gage, and to get the best out of Blue Tit it helps to provide a more sheltered sunny situation if you can - although Blue Tit is in most respects very reliable and easy to grow.


    Blue Tit characteristics

    • Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
    • Flowering group4
    • Pollinating othersAverage
    • AwardsRHS AGM (current) - 1995
    • Picking period (southern UK)mid-August
    • CroppingGood
    • Keeping1-3 days
    • Food usesEating freshCulinary
    • Disease resistanceGood
    • Country of originUnited Kingdom
    • Period of origin1900 - 1949
    • Fruit colourBlue - dark