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Nursery Manager's recommended varieties
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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.
1
Anna Spath
In stock
Available £26.00
A dual purpose purple plum with good flavour and reliable cropping
2
Blaisdon Red
In stock
Available £27.00
Blaisdon Red is an old plum variety from Gloucestershire traditionally grown for jam making
3
Blue Rock
In stock
Available £26.00
A very good medium sized blue plum with sweet juicy yellow flesh.
4
Curlew
In stock
Available £26.00 to £27.00
A blue mid season cooking plum with bright orange flesh
5
Czar
In stock
Available £26.00 to £27.00
One of the most popular cooking plums. Excellent colour and flavour.
6
Diamond
In stock
Available £26.00 to £27.00
An excellent culinary plum with a sharp damson like flavour
7
Marjorie's Seedling
In stock
Available £26.00 to £27.00
A very popular late plum mainly for culinary use but also a reasonable dessert plum
8
Ontario
In stock
Available £27.00
An attractive large dual purpose yellow plum.
9
Oullins Gage
In stock
Available £26.00
A sweet fairly large attractive yellow gage. A good garden variety for most parts of the UK.
10
Purple Pershore
In stock
Available £26.00 to £27.00
One of the best culinary plums. Excellent for jam and stewing.
11
Reeves
In stock
Available £26.00
Reeves is a heavy cropping, large and attractive red dual purpose plum