Kentish Bush

A heavy cropping and disease resistant cooking plum

Origin: Kent UK, 1836

Pollination: Kentish Bush is self-fertile and a pollinator is not necessary for producing a crop.Find pollination partners >

British-grown All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent, and have Defra plant-passport labels. More ...

Kentish Bush plum and gage trees produced to order

Closing date for custom graft orders: 14 Jul 2027

We do not stock this variety, but we can produce custom-graft trees for you. Trees can be grafted on any of the following rootstocks:

Form	Rootstock	Price	Quantity
Maiden	VVA-1Dwarfing	£39.00
Maiden	AdaptabilSemi-vigorous	£39.00

Custom graft trees would be supplied in December 2028. More details of our custom grafting service here.

History and description of Kentish Bush

Believed to have been found in a hedgerow in Bobbing near Sittingbourne, Kent, UK c 1836.

Medium sized, round squarish fruit. Blue-black bloomy skin with yellow or russety dots. Firm flesh but rather dry and mealy. Clinging stone. Not much flavour and useless as a dessert plum. Excellent as a cooker and good for jam making. The fruit hangs on the tree without derioration to the end of September.

Vigorous upright tree. Very hardy and resistant to disease. Self-fertile producing reliable heavy crops.

Characteristics of Kentish Bush plum and gage trees

Use	Culinary
Colour	Blue
Flavour
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time
Season of use	E Sep
Tree vigour	Vigorous
Tree habit	Upright
Fruit-bearing
Cropping	Heavy
Pollination date	25
Pollination group	D
Self-fertility	Self-fertile
Pollinators	Pollination partners