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Eating plum trees

We have a range of dessert plum varieties which will provide you with fresh plums for eating freshh, in different sizes to suit any garden or orchard.

  • Avalon

    Avalon plum trees
    Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
  • Cambridge Gage

    Cambridge Gage plum trees
    Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
  • Coe's Golden Drop

    Coe's Golden Drop plum trees
    Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
  • Denniston's Superb

    Denniston's Superb plum trees
    Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
  • Early Transparent Gage

    Early Transparent Gage plum trees
    One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
  • Excalibur

    Excalibur plum trees
    Excalibur is a red-purple plum, similar to Victoria but with a better flavour for eating fresh.
  • Gordon Castle

    Gordon Castle plum trees
    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.
  • Jefferson

    Jefferson plum trees
    Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
  • Jubilee

    Jubilee plum trees
    Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
  • Malling ElizabethTM

    Malling Elizabeth plum trees
    This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
  • Old Green Gage

    Old Green Gage plum trees
    The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
  • Opal

    Opal plum trees
    Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
  • Oullins Golden Gage

    Oullins Golden Gage plum trees
    The flavour of a true gage yet also easy to grow, Oullins Golden Gage is a good first gage tree.
  • Willingham

    A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.