Eating plums
These are the best plums for eating fresh off the tree.
Dessert plums
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
Dessert plums
Cambridge Gage is a reliable green gage, similar to Old Green Gage, with an excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Country of origin: United Kingdom
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Dessert plums
Coe's Golden Drop is a large oval gage from the 18th century, noted for its excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Very late
- Country of origin: United Kingdom
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Dessert plums
A large red plum with an excellent for eating fresh and also good in the kitchen.
- Picking season: Late
- Country of origin: United Kingdom
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Dessert plums
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
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 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
Dessert plums
Haganta is a new large blue plum from Germany, one of the latest-ripening and an excellent flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Country of origin: Germany
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Dessert plums
Jefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
- Picking season: Late
- Country of origin: United States
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Dessert plums
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 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 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
Dessert plums
An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.
- Picking season: Early
- Country of origin: France
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Dessert plums
The definitive gage - Old Green Gage is arguably the best-flavoured of any plum variety.
- Picking season: Late
- Country of origin: France
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Dessert plums
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
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
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
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 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
Dessert plums
A modern green-gage, more productive and easier to grow in the UK than the traditional ones.
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Dessert plums
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
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