Marjorie's Seedling plum
Easy to grow, heavy cropping purple/black plum, late season.
Marjorie Seedling is the main late-season commercial European plum sold in UK supermarkets. It is excellent for culinary purposes, and good for eating fresh when fully ripe.
It is attractive to commercial growers because it is vigorous, hardy, disease resistant, and a reliable and heavy cropper. These qualities mean it is also ideal for the garden or small orchard - and by growing your own you can also get a far better flavour than is possible for the commercial grower - the trick is to leave the plums on the tree longer. And if you like fresh plums, there are not many other ones around this late in the season.
The fruit is large, plum-shaped, and purple, becoming blue-black when fully ripe, with a heavy bloom - overall very attractive. The flesh is greenish-yellow, juicy, quite coarse, and noticeably veined. The stone is clinging.
Summary
- Species: Prunus domestica
- Origin: Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Introduced: 1912
- Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 124600
Identification
- Fruit colour: Purple
- Flesh colour: Green/Yellow
- Fruit size: Large
- Fruit shape: Oval / round
- Stone clinging?: Clinging
Using
- Good for eating fresh
- Good for cooking
- Flavour quality: Average
- Ripening period: Very-Late season Late September
- Use / keeping: 1 week
Growing
- Cropping: Heavy
- Flowering period: Late season
- Flowering group: 3
- Fertility: Self-fertile
- Vigour: Large
- Gardening skill: Very easy
- General disease resistance: Good
Climate
- Suitable for temperate climates
- Tolerates cold winters
- Suitable for NW. Scotland?: Yes Flowers late so avoids spring frosts
- Suitable for N. England?: Yes
Other qualities
- RHS Award of Garden Merit 1993
Disease resistance
- Bacterial canker Pseudomonas syringae - Very resistant
- Silverleaf Chondrostereum purpureum - Very resistant
Pests
- Plum fruit moth Cydia funebrana - Some susceptibility
Fruit tree register
Do you have a tree of this variety in your garden or orchard? If so please register the details here and contribute to our international register of fruit trees.
The following Marjorie's Seedling trees have been registered - click the name to view more details of each tree.
You can also view these trees on a map.
United States
- John Wright in JACKSON, UNITED STATE
United Kingdom
- Christine Woolass in GOOLE, YORKSHIRE
- Dave Alston in Belper, DERBYSHIRE
- Graham Hinchliffe in EASTBOURNE, EAST SUSSEX
- Graham Silcocks in HATHEROP, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- Laurence Streatfield in HAYLE, CORNWALL
- Mr Graeme M Fraser in PENICUIK, MIDLOTHIAN
- Nickkk in OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE
- Rhiannon Harrington in READING, BERKSHIRE
- Richard Borrie in YORK, Yorkshire
- Stc in REDDITCH, WORCESTERESHIRE
- Victoria Birkett in ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND
France
- Jacqueline Lawrence in RODEZ, AVEYRON
Ireland
- Ute Bohnsack in KILFENORA, CLARE
Latest Spring blossom records for this variety
2011 season
- 10th April 2011 - tree owned by Richard in YORK, United Kingdom
Record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register - more >>.
Latest harvest records for this variety
2011 season
Mature heights for Marjorie's Seedling trees
This table shows the likely mature height for a Marjorie's Seedling tree taking into account the vigor of the variety, the rootstock, and soil conditions.
| Rootstock | Soil quality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | Below average | Average | Above average | Very good | |
| Pixy | 7.2 ft 2.2 m |
9.0 ft 2.8 m |
10.8 ft 3.3 m |
13.5 ft 4.1 m |
16.2 ft 5.0 m |
| St.Julien | 9.0 ft 2.8 m |
11.3 ft 3.5 m |
13.5 ft 4.1 m |
16.9 ft 5.2 m |
20.3 ft 6.2 m |
| Brompton | 14.4 ft 4.4 m |
18.0 ft 5.5 m |
21.6 ft 6.6 m |
27.0 ft 8.3 m |
32.4 ft 9.9 m |
From an idea by N. Buck - more details.
Plum, gage, damson trees
The following fruit tree nurseries offer Marjorie's Seedling plum trees for sale:
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Orange Pippin Fruit Trees (UK)
United Kingdom Supplier's website >>
Where to buy plums to eat
No orchards have registered as growing this variety. If you grow this and want to register please go to our Orchard Registration form.
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