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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. 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. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification.
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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 |
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