• See also:
• Dual-purpose plums13
• Plums for cooking9

Eating plums

These are the best plums for eating fresh off the tree.

• Dessert plums

  Avalon

  

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

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
• In stock

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  Cambridge Gage

  

  Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.

  24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• In stock

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  Coe's Golden Drop

  

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

  24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Very late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
• In stock

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  Denbigh

  A large red plum with an excellent for eating fresh and also good in the kitchen.

  24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Excalibur

  

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

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
• Dessert plums

  Gordon Castle

  This late-season green plum originates from Scotland and has an excellent sweet flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
• Dessert plums

  Guinevere

  

  Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• In stock

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  Haganta

  

  Haganta is a new large blue plum from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.

  25.00€buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: Germany
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• In stock

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  Jefferson

  

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

  24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United States
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
• Dessert plums

  Jubilee

  

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

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Country of origin: Sweden
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Katinka

  Katinka is an excellent early season eating plum.

  • Picking season: Very early
  • Country of origin: Germany
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
• Dessert plums

  Lindsey Gage

  Lindsey Gage is a sweet-flavoured green gage, similar to Cambridge Gage.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• In stock

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  Meritare

  An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.

  24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Early
  • Country of origin: France
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• In stock

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  Old Green Gage

  

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

  From 24.45€ to 24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: France
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Opal

  

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

  • Picking season: Early
  • Country of origin: Sweden
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Reine Claude de Bavay

  

  The most widely-grown green gage, Reine Claude de Bavay has the distinctive gage-like flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: Belgium
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Reine Claude Doree

  A high-quality yellow-green gage, and usually more productive than other green gages.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: France
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Reine Claude Violette

  A traditional French gage first recorded in the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour. Also known as Purple Gage.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: France
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Seneca

  

  Seneca is a high-quality late-season large American plum with a notably sweet flavor.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United States
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• In stock

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  Stella's Star

  

  A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.

  24.45€buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
• Dessert plums

  Willingham

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

  • Picking season: Late
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3