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. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification. More ...

Kentish Bush plum and gage trees produced to order

Closing date for custom graft orders: 14 Jul 2026

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 2027. 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