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Pollination of
Excalibur
plum trees
Excalibur
(
Prunus domestica
) is in
flowering group 2
. Excalibur is
not self-fertile
and needs a pollination partner of a different variety nearby.
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Varieties that will pollinate
Excalibur
in our catalogue
Aprimira
in stock
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Aprimira is a sweet self-fertile apricot-mirabelle cross, also known as a miracot.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Weiwa
Avalon
in stock
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Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
Flowering group:
Partially self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Belle de Louvain
in stock
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Belle de Louvain is a large purple culinary plum, useful because it can be grown on north-facing walls.
Flowering group:
Partially self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Blaisdon Red
in stock
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Blaisdon Red is one of the best plum varieties for making plum jam.
Flowering group:
Not self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Brompton
Cambridge Gage
in stock
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Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
Flowering group:
Partially self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Czar
in stock
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Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Denniston's Superb
in stock
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Denniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
Flowering group:
Good pollinator
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Early Transparent Gage
in stock
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One of the easier gages to grow, Early Transparent has attractive semi-translucent fruit.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Edda
in stock
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A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.
Flowering group:
Not self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Farleigh
in stock
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One of the hardiest damsons, and crops heavily. Farleigh has the distinctive damson flavour.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Haganta
in stock
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Haganta is a new large blue plum variety from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
Flowering group:
Partially self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Herman
in stock
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Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Jefferson
in stock
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Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
Flowering group:
Good pollinator
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Jubilee
in stock
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Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
Weiwa
St. Julien
Malling Elizabeth
in stock
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This new plum variety was released to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.
Flowering group:
Partially self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
Weiwa
St. Julien
Marjorie's Seedling
in stock
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Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Merryweather
in stock
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Merryweather is a very popular damson, with unusually large fruit, one of the hardiest of fruit trees.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Old Green Gage
in stock
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The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
Flowering group:
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Opal
in stock
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Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
Weiwa
St. Julien
Brompton
Reeves
in stock
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A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.
Flowering group:
Not self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Rivers' Early Prolific
in stock
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Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Early
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Shepherds Bullace
in stock
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A large-fruited bullace, used for cooking and preserves, similar to a damson.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Shropshire Prune
in stock
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The definitive English damson, Shropshire Prune has the rich astringent flavour typical of damsons.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Stella's Star
in stock
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A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Victoria
in stock
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Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
Flowering group:
Good pollinator
Self-fertile
Picking: Mid
Available rootstocks:
VVA-1
St. Julien
Brompton
Warwickshire Drooper
in stock
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Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.
Flowering group:
Self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Brompton
Willingham
in stock
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A traditional English green gage, with a reputation for excellent flavour.
Flowering group:
Not self-fertile
Picking: Late
Available rootstocks:
St. Julien
Brompton