Czar
Edda
3
2
Picking Month: Early August
Picking Month: Late August
Medium, dark purple plum with a sweet yellow flesh. Can
An excellent dessert plum. Blue skinned fruits and yellow flesh
produce very heavy crops and always reliable. (Herts. 19th C)
with a fine, rich and juicy flavour. (Norway)
Excalibur
Ferbleue
2
2
Picking Month: September
Picking Month: August
A vigorous tree, shy cropping but sacrificing quantity for quality
Blue plum of very good flavour due to its high sugar content.
is worthwhile in this case. Pollinated by Victoria amongst others. (Bristol circa 1980)
Gordon Castle
3
Guinevere
3
Picking Month: Early September
Picking Month: Late September
A native hardy plum for northern districts. Greenish-yellow but
Large and heavy cropping around Marjorie’s Seedling time with
sweet with an excellent flavour. (Scotland)
probably better eating quality. Extended shelf life when fridge stored. (Kent 2000)
Haganta®
3
Herman
2
Picking Month: September
Picking Month: Mid July
Large, blue plum, strong scented with excellent flavour. Keeps
Medium, blue-black, very early, freestone, golden flesh and
well. Partially self fertile. Freestone. (Germany 2005)
excellent eating quality. A week earlier than Czar and with improved flavour. (Sweden 1970)
Jubilee
3
Katinka®
Picking Month: Mid August
Picking Month: Late June
Superb eating quality. Similar to Victoria, but larger, and picks
Very early dark purple-blue fruits with juicy yellow flesh.
one week earlier. Strong growing, recommended on Pixy.
Very productive variety with huge crops of delicious plums.
(Sweden 1985)
(Germany)
Kea
3
Manaccan
3
Picking Month: Mid August
Picking Month: Late August
A very special culinary plum from the Fal Valley in Cornwall.
An old Cornish variety. Yellow skin with an orange blush.
Makes incredible jam, preserves and liqueur.
Traditionally used for jam making but is often sweet. (Cornwall)
Marjorie’s Seedling
Meritare
5
3
Picking Month: Late July
Picking Month: Late September
A dessert plum, similar quality to Victoria larger fruit and
One of the latest picking plums for September. Large and good
earlier. Red in colour with yellow, juicy flesh. Suitable for colder
quality purple fruit. Dual purpose. Good cropper. (Berks 1912)
areas in the UK. (Sweden 1985)
Opal
Purple Pershore
3
3
Picking Month: Late July
Picking Month: Late August
One of the most reliable garden plums. Known as the early
Very large purple to almost black fruit. A useful dual-purpose
Victoria. A medium, reddish-purple fruit with superb flavour.
plum. (Worcester)
(Sweden 1925)
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