Coe's Golden Drop plum trees
Prunus domestica - Picking season: Very late Late October
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Coe's Golden Drop is a traditional yellow English plum, with a very good rich sweet gage-like flavour, but some balancing sharpness. It is widely regarded as one of the best-flavoured of all English plums.
The attractive yellow free-stone plums are valuable for both dessert and culinary use. This versatility, combined with its excellent flavour and large size make it a particularly desirable plum tree for the keen fruit grower.
Coe's Golden Drop plum trees for sale
Bare-root
BR11-year bare-root treeSt. Julien rootstock£38.75
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BR22-year bush-trained bare-root treeSt. Julien rootstock£47.50
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BR32-year half-standard bare-root treeSt. Julien rootstock£51.00
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Delivery charges
Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.
Growing and Training
Coe's Golden Drop is not as easy to grow as most plums. It is quite fussy about its situation - it does best in a sheltered location or trained on a south-facing wall.
The tree is generally healthy and can be quite vigorous on good soils. Cropping is very variable - it is best to assume it will be light, although if the tree likes where you have planted it then cropping can be very good. Pollination is important for best results with this variety - it is not self-fertile so make sure you have a couple of other (different) European plum varieties growing nearby.
This is essentially a variety for the plum enthusiast, who will, in a good year, be rewarded with perhaps the most refined of English plums.
Recommended pollinators for Coe's Golden Drop plum trees
Coe's Golden Drop is not self-fertile and is also a poor pollinator of other varieties. Ideally you need two other different but compatible varieties planted nearby in order to produce fruit, or one compatible self-fertile variety.
The following varieties are good pollinators for Coe's Golden Drop.
If you are not sure about pollination requirements don't hesitate to ask us.
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VictoriaVictoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.
OpalOpal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.
Marjorie's SeedlingMarjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.
HermanHerman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.
Denniston's SuperbDenniston's Superb is a gage-like green plum, raised in New York in the 19th century.
AvalonAvalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.
History
Raised by Jervaise Coe, a market gardener from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, at the end of the 18th century. Mr Coe stated that it was seedling tree, most likely from an Old Green Gage stone pollinated by a White Magnum Bonum plum tree growing nearby.
Coe's Golden Drop characteristics
- Gardening skillExperienced
- Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
- Flowering group2
- Pollinating othersPoor
- Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesWarm climates
- Picking seasonVery late
- CroppingLight
- Keeping (of fruit)1 week
- Food usesEating freshCulinary
- Disease resistanceAverage
- Country of originUnited Kingdom
- Period of origin1800 - 1849
- Blossom colourWhite
- Fruit colourYellow
Similar varieties
JeffersonJefferson is a a large yellow gage / plum, easy to grow, crops well, very juicy and great flavour.
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