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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

Plum varieties

  • Early Prolific Plum
    Widely known as River's Early Prolific or Early Rivers after the Hertfordshire nusery where it was raised, as the name suggests, early and prolific!
  • Early Transparent Gage
    One of the easier gages to grow, and unlike most gages is useful for cooking too.
  • Empress, also known as Blue Imperatrice, is a very late season European plum with a notably sweet flavor.
  • Ersinger Fruhzwetsche Plum
    An early-season culinary plum with a good flavor.
  • Excalibur Plum
    A well-flavoured red-purple plum, similar to Victoria.