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Monarch Plum Plum

Prunus domestica
A good self-fertile late culinary plum

Origin: Hertfordshire UK 1883

Pollination: Monarch Plum is self-fertile and would produce a good crop in the absence of a pollinator but may benefit from the presence a pollinator.
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Monarch Plum Plum Trees for sale - order online

We supply trees and plants only during the winter planting season from late November to mid March. Orders placed now will not be be delivered until the winter planting season. You will not be required to pay until October but by ordering now you can ensure that the items are reserved for you and supplied as early as possible when we resume delveries in late November.
Please select the rootstock, age and tree form available items in the table below. The choice of rootstock is important as it determines the size to which the tree will grow when mature. Trees are available either as maidens which are untrained one year old trees or two year old trees already trained in a particular form. Trees are supplied bare root during the planting season from late November to early March. Further information is available below.

Rootstock Age/Form Availability Price Qty required
Pixy - Semi-dwarfing 1 year Maiden Available £18.50
St Julien A - Semi-vigorous 1 year Maiden Available £17.50

The availability information shown in the availability column in the table is always up-to-date.
Available means Available for supply from Nov 2013 to March 2014
2014/15 means Sold out but available for supply winter 2014/15. Orders taken from May 2014
Sold out means Sold out for supply Nov 2013 to March 2014. May be available again winter 14/15




History and description of Monarch Plum

Raised by Thomas Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, UK c 1883 from an open pollinated Autumn Compote. Awarded a First Class Certificate by the RHS in 1894. Was widely grown commercially in the UK as a late variety.

Large, round fruit. Blue-black, bloomy skin often with some white dots. Greenish yellow, firm flesh. Free stone. Not much flavour as a dessert plum but good flavour and colour as a cooker.

Very vigorous upright tree with large round leaves. Tollerates light soils well. Fairly good cropper.




Main characteristics of Monarch Plum

Use Culinary
Colour Blue
Flavour Sharp
Fruit size  Large
Season of use  Sep

Tree vigour  Vigorous
Tree habit  Upright-Spreading
Disease resistance  Silver Leaf: Resistant
Suitable for Shade

Pollination date  17
Pollination group  B
Self fertility  Self Fertile
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Parentage  Autumn Compote



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