Coe's Golden Drop

Coe's Golden Drop plum and gage trees for sale

1-year maiden trees

These are the most versatile choice for home orchards, community fruit tree projects, and for training on in any form you require.

Form	Rootstock	Price	Quantity
Maiden	VVA-1Dwarfing	£27.00	Sold-out
Maiden	AdaptabilSemi-vigorous	£26.00	Sold-out

If you do not see the rootstock you require it is likely we can graft a tree especially for you - click here for more details of our custom-grafting service.

Sorry we have sold out of this variety for this season.

History and description of Coe's Golden Drop

Coe's Golden Drop is the best known of several varieties produced by Jervaise Coe, a gardener at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in the late 18th Century. Coe believed the original seedling to have arisen from a cross between a Greengage and a White Magnum Bonum growing nearby. Was grown commercially in the UK.

Large, oval, fruit with a tapered neck to the stalk. Golden yellow skin with reddish brown specks and cinnamon bloom. Tender, juicy golden yellow flesh. Sweet with an excellent apricot flavour. Stone free. Keeps well after picking.

Moderately vigorous spreading tree. It is a light and erratic cropper needing good growing conditions and so only suitable for warm and sheltered locations.

Characteristics of Coe's Golden Drop plum and gage trees

Use	Dessert
Colour	Yellow
Flavour	Sweet
Fruit size	Large
Picking time
Season of use	L Sep
Tree vigour	Moderate
Tree habit	Spreading
Fruit-bearing
Cropping	Light
Pollination date	19
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners
Parentage	Old Greengage White Magnum Bonum
Progeny	Bryanston Gage Severn Cross Thames Cross
Sports	Crimson Drop