Plum trees

Plums are perhaps the easiest fruit trees for the beginner. We have a range of different varieties, including eating plums and culinary plums and damsons.

Avalon
Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
Belle de Louvain
Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.
Blaisdon Red
Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
Blue Tit
Blue Tit is a popular English dual-purpose plum, easy to grow, reliable cropping.
Cambridge Gage
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Coe's Golden Drop
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
Czar
Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
Denniston's Superb
Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
Early Transparent Gage
One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
Edda
A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Excalibur
Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh.
Farleigh
One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
Gordon Castle
A good dessert plum for northern areas due to its hardiness.
Haganta
Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
Hauszwetsche German Prune
Hauszwetsche is a damson-like Quetsche or Zwetsche plum, ideal for German-style cakes and desserts.
Herman
Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Jefferson
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
Jubilee
Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Malling ElizabethTM
This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
Marjorie's Seedling
Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
Merryweather
Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees.
Old Green Gage
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
Opal
Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Oullins Golden Gage
The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
Purple Pershore
Very similar to Yellow Pershore and with the same excellent culinary qualities.
Reeves
A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.
Rivers' Early Prolific
Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
Shepherds Bullace
A large-fruited bullace, used for cooking and preserves, similar to a damson.
Shropshire Prune
The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
Stella's Star
A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.
Victoria
Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Warwickshire Drooper
Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
Willingham
A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
Yellow Pershore
Also known as Yellow Egg, Yellow Pershore is a self-fertile heavy cropping culinary plum.