• See also:
• Eating plums34
• Plums for cooking12
• Japanese plums2

Dual-purpose plums

These versatile plum varieties are good for eating fresh but equally good in the kitchen.

• Avalon

  

  Avalon is a large mid-season red/purple plum, similar to Victoria, with a very good flavour.

  £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

• Czar

  

  Czar is a traditional culinary plum, one of the easiest plums trees, will even fruit on north-facing walls.

  £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Edda

  

  A good quality and cold-hardy early-season purple plum from Norway.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

• Guinevere

  Guinevere is a modern late-season dessert plum, with a good flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Herman

  

  Herman is one of the best quality early-season plum varieties, blue/purple with yellow flesh.

  £60.50 - £62.00buy

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

• Jubilee

  

  Jubilee is a new heavy-cropping dessert plum variety, similar to Victoria but larger and more reliable.

  £60.50 - £63.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Katinka®

  A very early-season dual-purpose dark-blue plum with an excellent flavour.

  £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Very early
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

• Marjorie's Seedling

  

  Marjorie's Seedling is an easy to grow, late-season, heavy cropping purple/black plum.

  £60.50 - £63.50buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Meritare

  An attractive new early-season dessert plum from Sweden, similar to Opal, with large fruits and good cold-hardiness.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Opal

  

  Opal is an early plum variety with a good flavour, self-fertile and very easy to grow.

  £60.50 - £63.50buy

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Queen's Crown

  

  Queen's Crown is a dual-purpose red plum with a good sweet flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Reeves

  

  A high-quality English dual-purpose plum, similar to Victoria but with an improved flavour for eating fresh.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

• Rivers' Early Prolific

  

  Early Prolific is a very heavy-cropping early-season plum, raised by the famous Rivers nursery.

  £60.50buy

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

• Sanctus Hubertus

  

  One of the best cropping early-season plums.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

• Swan

  

  A popular traditional English dual-purpose red / purple plum.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Victoria

  

  Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.

  £60.50 - £63.50buyBest seller

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Violetta

  A new heavy-cropping self-fertile dwarf plum from Sweden.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Warwickshire Drooper

  

  Warwickshire Drooper is a good quality dual-purpose yellow plum, with heavy crops.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2