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English Grown Plants from our nursery in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk.

 

Native English PlantsHedging, Hedge plantsFruit trees / bush

 Plum

Plum Belle de Louvain

 

Belle de Louvain has very Large red/purple bloomy fruits with a bright yellow flesh which also make excellent jam. A Prolific cropper.

Harvest:  September
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

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£38.00

Plum Czar

 

The large purple fruits are tender with a pleasant slightly acidic flavour. Czar can be used as a dessert when fully ripe, otherwise a good cooking plum. Self Fertile.

Harvest:  September
Use: Duel purpose Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
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£38.00

Plum Herman

 

Plum Herman is a very early self-fertile blue-violet plum similar in appearance to a Czar but with much improved flavour

Harvest: July
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 2

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

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Plum Heron

 

Large blue plum speckled with purple.

Harvest: August
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 2

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

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£38.00

Plum Kirkes Blue

 

Mid season eater. Large purple fruit, firm, sweet and juicy. An old favourite.

Harvest: July
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 2

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

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£38.00

Plum Marjories

 

Late-season eating and cooking plum. Large purple fruit, good cropper. Late-flowering, so tends to miss the spring frosts Self fertile.

Harvest: September
Use: Dual
Pollination Group: 5

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

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£38.00

Plum Manns No.1

 

Similar characteristics to Victoria but fruiting slightly earlier.

Harvest: August
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

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£38.00

Plum Monarch

 

Large, Blue-black round fruit with bloomy skin. Good flavour and high yield.

Harvest: September
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
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£38.00

Plum Opal

 

An excellent heavy cropping, self-fertile, purple dessert plum. Reddish purple flush over a yellow bloomy skin. Good sweet flavour. Very reliable.

Harvest: July
Use: Dessert Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

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£38.00

Plum Purple Pershore

 

A sport of the Pershore plum, introduced around 1900. Produces dark purple fruit that are excellent for stewing and for jams. A good reliable culinary plum.

Harvest: July
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

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£38.00

Plum Reeves

 

Very large, round, reddish purple fruit. A good flavoured dessert or culinary plum. A heavy cropper

Harvest: July
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

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£38.00

Plum Rivers Early Prolific

 

Introduced around 1830 by Thomas Rivers, a small compact tree with small round purple fruit. The flesh is golden yellow, and when fully ripe they make for very pleasant eating - firm but sweet. Excellent for cooking and bottling.

Harvest: August
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 2

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
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£38.00

Plum Sanctus Hubertus

 

An improved Early Rivers plum with large purple-blue fruit which are dessert or culinary and partly self fertile.

Harvest: August
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

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Plum Swan

 

Medium large, round-oval fruit. Dark red skin usually covered with a heavy purple bloom. Better suited to culinary use.

Harvest: August
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
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£38.00

Plum Victoria

 

The bright red fruit have a wonderful flavour and as well as a dessert they make the very best jams. Plum Victoria is one of the best loved of all fruit trees, and no orchard or fruit garden is complete without one.

Harvest: August
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 3

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
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£38.00

Plum Warwickshire Drooper

 

A late yellow plum. An old favourite which is making a come back. Attractive tree with weeping habit giving this plum its name of Warwickshire Drooper, which always crops well.

Harvest: August
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 2

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

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£38.00

Plum Yellow Pershore

 

One of the best and most popular traditional English culinary plums. Yellow bloomy skin. Firm, dry, yellow flesh. Plum Yellow Pershore is reliable and self fertile.

Harvest: August
Use: Dual Plum
Pollination Group: 2

Bare Root Maiden

 £18.00

Bare Root Feathered Maiden

 £22.00

Bare Root Half Standard  Tree

 £36.00

Pot grown Ready
Fruiting Tree

From
£38.00

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