Here's some helpfull tips when Planting your Trees: Soak the roots before planting : Avoid planting if there's a frost : Place your tree in a sunny/sheltered position. Help the roots to stimulate and establish more quickly by mixing in some farmyard manure.
Aftercare: Protect your fruit tree from moths that will destroy the fruit and leaves - apply a Glue Band to the stake and trunk 2-3ft above the soil level. (A Glue Band is a sticky paper or glue that will stop wingless female moths being able to reach the branches of the tree to mate, from which its caterpillars will eat the leaves and fruit). Glue bands should be applied late October and reapplied as necessary. Additionally, apply fruit tree grease in December or January to kill off any overwintering pests.
An old variety with small, sweet, red flushed fruit. Pick September and use by end of October. Pollination Group C.
An old English variety that is both reliable fruiting well each year and good flavour with flesh that melts in the mouth. Medium to large fruits. Known as Bartlett pears in tins. Good in the north in a sheltered position. Mid-season flowering. Pollination Group B.
Belle de Louvain are very large, oval-shaped, and dark red, becoming purple when fully ripe. This is primarily a culinary plum, the flesh is not particularly juicy, but reveals its true flavour when cooked. Vigorous tree. Self-fertile. Mid-season flowering. Pollination Group B.
Japanese type plum tree that produces firm, aromatic and juicy fruit. Large purplish red fruit with amber yellow flesh. It has a sweet amber clingstone flesh. Bears early and sets heavy crops. The sweet, uniquely flavoured fruit is ideal for eating, canning and making jam. Must be planted with another plum tree for pollination. Ripens mid-late summer.
Similar to the greengage but more reliable. A later flowering variety. Yellow-green juicy flesh and a beautiful flavour. Partly self-fertile but better with a partner. Vigorous growth and likes a warm location. Use for dessert or cooking.
A culinary Damson with a heavy crop of large blue-black fruits with yellow flesh. Harvest late September. Self-fertile. Mid season flowering. Pollination Group B.
Plum. A dual purpose plum, cooking or eating, with deep purple fruits. Ripening in July The flesh is pale yellow and quite sharp, self-fertile, mid season pollinator. Early and prolific.
Large blue plum ripening in September after the Victoria has finished. Creamy white flesh and heavy cropping. Mid season pollinating.
Dessert plum. Very large fruits of exceptional quality, similar to a Victoria. Pick in July. Needs a pollinating partner. Mid-season.
'Kordia' is an upright, deciduous fruit tree with ovate to oblong, toothed, dark green leaves turning orange and red in autumn and nodding, white flowers in mid-spring followed by small, glossy, edible, maroon fruit ready for harvest in early to midsummer.
Raised in Bedfordshire in 1900. Produces a red colour plum which is used as a good cooker. A self sterile tree which requires a pollinator.
Plum 'Mirabelle de Nancy' is a vigorous, upright variety producing heavy crops of classic, yellow, small French plums from September. The incredibly sweet, stone free fruits ripen from white to honey yellow and are excellent eaten fresh or cooked.
Plums are quite small and a dull green colour, turning slightly yellow when ripe. However this is one that you grow for flavour - for eating fresh it is exceptional. Prefers a sunny sheltered spot. Harvest early September. Self-fertile. Mid-late flowering. Pollination Group C.
A new early variety, great flavour. Gage like texture and easy to get flesh off the stone. Dessert plum with yellow flesh and red-purple skin. Harvest late July. Self-fertile. Mid season flowering. Pollination Group B.
A variety with great flavour for cooking and jam making. Medium golden yellow fruit produced in August. A good level of frost resistance. Self-fertile.
Plum producing large round fruit with a purple to golden yellow colour, juicy and excellent. Flowering mid season. Harvest mid-August. Early fertility. Regular high productivity. Sun exposure. Ordinary soil, not too dry to cool. Frost resistant.
Large blue plum ripening in September after the Victoria has finished. Yellow flesh and heavy cropping. Mid season pollinating.
Upright, deciduous fruit tree which spreads when mature and gets white flowers in late spring, followed by deep-red, sweet cherry fruit in late summer.
A small dual purpose plum with pale red fruits. Ripening in late August and early September. The flesh is greeny-yellow and of a good flavour. Self-fertile. Deciduous. Hardy.
A compact rounded tree with glossy bright green leaves and funnel-shaped bright orange-red followed by yellow-brown edible fruit. Height 30-100cm. Spread 30-100cm. Flowers from June to August. Likes a warm sheltered, sunny spot.
A compact rounded tree with glossy bright green leaves and funnel-shaped bright orange-red followed by yellow-brown edible fruit. Height 30-100cm. Spread 30-100cm. Flowers from June to August. Likes a warm sheltered, sunny spot.
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