PLUMS
july = early // aug = midseason // sept = late
Harvest: good / medium / small
Cultivation zone 1-8
Belle de louvain plum
Also called “Schöne von Löwen”. Large oval with rose red to bright red color, with maturity and time black-brown. Juicy with a sweet taste without much aroma.
Rating: 4
Use: Jam, cooking and baking.
Maturity: midseason / late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil (handles shade, wind and cold)
Bonne de Bry plum
Small with red-purple base color and violet cover color. The flesh is yellow, medium firm, juicy with a sweet, slightly sour, slightly aromatic taste. Ripens in mid-August.
Rating: 5
Use: For eating
Maturity: Early / Midseason
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil
Bornholmsk Jätte Plommon
Rating: 5
Use: For eating or grazing
Maturity: Late
Harvest: medium
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil
Experimentalfältets sviskon
A wonderful deep blue prune plum, which tastes like a real plum, but still has the enormous productivity of the prune. Developed in Sweden around 1920. Great for the garden!
Rating: 5
Use: For eating, pickling and drying
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun to partial shade / medium humidity. Nutritious soil, rich soil
Grön Reine Claude plommon
Rating: 5
Use: Plums / cooking / cider
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Small
Hardiness: Zone 1-5
Habitat: Sun, nutritious soil
Kirke plommon
Large, round towards oval, olive to light red with violet cover color. Flesh is yellow-green, between juicy, firm with a sweet taste and fine aroma. Lovely plum.
Rating: 5
Use: For eating
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Medium
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun and protection from wind
Kungsplommon
Also known as: Van Mons ‘Kungsplommon, Reine Claude rouge van Mons, Van Mons’ Red. Large round plum in the colors yellow to purple. The flesh is yellow, juicy with a very sweet, slightly aromatic taste.
Rating: 5
Use: For eating
Maturity: midseason / late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil
Reine Claude de Althans plum
A classic French very popular plum with fantastic aroma and colors
Rating: 5
Use: Good to eat or jam
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil
Reine Claude De oullins plum
Self-pollinating quality plums. A tall and broad fruit tree that bears beautiful, round yellow-green plums. The fruit is aromatic sour-sweet. Classic variety that gives large harvests. Yellow plum. Self-fertile.
Rating: 5
Use: Plums / cooking / cider
Maturity: Medium
Harvest: Medium
Hardiness: Zone 1-5
Habitat: Sun, nutritious soil
Reine Claude violette plum
A very nice plum. A classic French plum, with fine color and medium production. Requires sun and good, well-drained calcareous soil.
Rating: 5
Use: Plums / cooking / cider
Maturity: Midseason
Harvest: Medium
Hardiness: Zone 1-5
Habitat: Sun, nutritious soil
Reine Claude de Brahy plum
Rating: 5
Use: For eating. Good cooked fruit, jam.
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil
Rosin plum (Damson)
Damson is small, oval, violet-reddish, clear with fine dots and thin, bluish dew. Ripens in August and is good as a household fruit. Weakly growing small tree.
Rating: 5
Use: For pickling, cooking and drying
Maturity: Midseason / late
Harvest:
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun. Nutritious soil
Stanley plum
Large, oval, blue plums with thick skin and yellow-green flesh, which taste very sweet, but are quite dry. Similar to “Italian prune”. Ripens in September. Medium vigorous plant. Self-pollinating.
Rating: 5
Use: Good to eat or jam
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sunny in well-drained deep nutrient-rich soil
Spilling wild plum
Spills are small plums, usually oval or oblong, the color is golden to reddish. Used for compote.
Rating: 4
Use: For compotes and cakes
Maturation: midseason
Harvest: good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3 (4.5)
Habitat: Preferably sun and good soil
Ungersk sviskon plommon
Rating: 5
Use: For eating or grazing
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: warm, fertile soil. Requires abundant fertilizer
Vanligt Katrinplommon
A generous plum species, which does not taste quite as much as a “real” plum but which is fantastic for compotes and pastries.
Rating: 4
Use: For eating or baking
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Sun and protection from wind
Victoria
Self-pollinating, rich-bearing, sweet large purple plum with an aromatic sometimes slightly watery taste. Very well known variety. The plums are suitable for eating directly or in baking and pickling. Victoria is an easy-care and easy-to-grow plum variety.
Rating: 5
Use: Edible plums / cooking
Maturation: Midseason/ Late
Harvest: Good
Hardiness: Zone 1-5
Habitat: Sun, nutritious soil
Washington plum
Very large oval, grass green base color, on the sunny side against warm yellow orange. The meat is juicy with a pleasant sweet taste and aroma. A nice eating plum.
Rating: 5
Use: For eating
Maturity: Late
Harvest: Medium
Hardiness: Zone 1-3
Habitat: Avoid overly fertilized soils
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