Autumn 2025 / Winter 2026 seasonWe still have plenty of trees left for the winter planting season, but it is best to order ASAP.

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Cooking plum trees

While all plums can be used for cooking there are varieties which are particularly suitable for various culinary uses. These include acid varieties which are good for jam making and varieties which are very firm fleshed and can be used for tarts or drying.

1Anna Spath
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Available £26.00
A dual purpose purple plum with good flavour and reliable cropping
2Blaisdon Red
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Available £27.00
Blaisdon Red is an old plum variety from Gloucestershire traditionally grown for jam making
3Blue Rock
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Available £26.00
A very good medium sized blue plum with sweet juicy yellow flesh.
4Curlew
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Available £26.00 to £27.00
A blue mid season cooking plum with bright orange flesh
5Diamond
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Available £26.00 to £27.00
An excellent culinary plum with a sharp damson like flavour
6Marjorie's Seedling
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Available £26.00
A very popular late plum mainly for culinary use but also a reasonable dessert plum
7Ontario
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Available £27.00
An attractive large dual purpose yellow plum.
8Oullins Gage
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Available £26.00
A sweet fairly large attractive yellow gage. A good garden variety for most parts of the UK.
9Purple Pershore
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Available £26.00 to £27.00
One of the best culinary plums. Excellent for jam and stewing.
10Reeves
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Available £26.00
Reeves is a heavy cropping, large and attractive red dual purpose plum

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