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.
The Queen of pears as regards flavour. It requires a sheltered sunny site preferably with a pollination partner close by. Late pollination. Pick in October use by December.
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, yellow fruits covered in smooth skin. Large crops of juicy pears make this a popular pear. Good in the north in a sheltered position. A strong growing pear.
A strong growing pear. Red skin with creamy white juicy flesh. Sweet flavour. Harvest early September. Mid-late season flowering. Pollination Group C.
An old variety with small, sweet, red flushed fruit. Pick September and use by end of October. Pollination Group C.
Conference: A dessert pear with pale green fruits tinged a golden russet. The flesh is white, firm and of a pleasant flavour. Clapp's Favourite: Early fruiting pear. Medium sized yellow/green fruit with a red blush suitable for dessert or cooking. Williams: A dessert pear with green fruits of a sweet musky flavour and great juiciness.
A dessert pear with green fruits of a sweet musky flavour and great juiciness. Ready in September. Deciduous.
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.
One of the most popular traditional and trusted dessert plum tree varieties with regular, medium to large sized purple fruits, round in shape and with an acidic taste. The fruits darken and acquire a sweet taste as they ripen. Heavy, regular crops of delicious plums are ready for harvesting in July, but the fruits can be left to fully ripen for a much sweeter taste.
Farleigh is probably the heaviest-cropping of all the Damsons. The fruit is quite small, but has the characteristic rich Damson flavour when cooked. Very hardy. Good tree for difficult places. Harvest late. Mid-late flowering. Self-fertile. Pollination Group C.
A great tasting gage. Denniston Superb is amongst the best as far as eating plums go. The pale green skin is tinged with a red flush. It reliably produces a good crop of plums in late summer.
Large blue plum ripening in September after the Victoria has finished. Creamy white flesh and heavy cropping. Mid season pollinating.
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.
A self-fertile, early season, Swedish plum tree producing large, purple, delicious, aromatic fruits packed full of vitamins and with a good balance of sweetness and spiciness.
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.
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.
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.
This is probably the heaviest cropping of all the damsons. The fruit is quite small, but has the characteristic rich damson flavour when cooked. Very hardy. Good tree for difficult places. Harvest late. Mid-late flowering. Self-fertile. Pollination Group C. Great flavour and prolific.
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 eater fresh or cooked.
A juicy dual purpose heritage plum. Good crop of greenish-yellow fruit follows white blossom. Hardy and self-fertile.
Claude is a large green dessert plum ready mid August with great flavour. Flowering in mid-season and fruit can be harvested in mid August. Fruit is sweet and juicy, often used for jams, in canned syrups or you can just eat it fresh.
Large blue plum ripening in September after the Victoria has finished. Yellow flesh and heavy cropping. Mid season pollinating.
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.
Fast growing deciduous plum tree. It produces white flowers in the spring followed by dark purple fruits with a yellow flesh that are ready to pick in late summer and early autumn. President is a self-fertile variety and it can be pruned regularly if needed.
Self-fertile variety producing very sweet fairly large yellow gage plums which initially have pink and yellow skin, eventually turning reddish-purple colour. This plum tree is very productive and very suited to the UK climate.
Claude is a large green dessert plum ready mid August with great flavour.
A dwarf prune-plum with oval, sweet, freestone fruit which feature dark purple skins and yellow flesh which ripen in early September. Early spring bloom has good ornamental value. Prefers moisture retentive soils with good drainage. Self-pollinating. Deciduous.
Medium-small sized fruits. Green-yellow with red blur colour. Yellow pulp. Ripening in late June, early July.
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 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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