Organic Purple Pershore Plum Tree
Organic Purple Pershore Plum is an excellent heavy cropping culinary self fertile desert plum tree with medium sized reddish purple plums, often lop sided with a neck towards the stalk, with cooking and perserving qualities that are highly recognised.
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Organic Purple Pershore Plum is an excellent heavy cropping culinary self fertile desert plum tree with medium sized reddish purple plums, often lop sided with a neck towards the stalk. Arose iaround 1877, its cooking and preserving qualities were soon recognised and became widely grown in the Vale of Evesham. Rootstock: St Julien A.
Purple Pershore Plum Trees are ideal for fan training along a warm, south facing wall or fence and as we supply this popular variety as a bare-rooted maiden fruit tree, the intial fan training and pruning is simple. Raised on the moderately vigorous St Julien A rootstock which makes them ideal for bush tree type growing in gardens large and small.
Organic Purple Pershore Plum Trees are despatched in bare-root form between November and March.
- Supplied in moderately vigorous form on St Julien A rootstocks
- Trees grown on St Julien A rootstock approx. 1.5m when supplied and reach 4-5.5m (12' - 18')
- Raised on Soil Association certified and DEFRA inspected specialist nursery - Soil Association Organic Certificate
- Ideal for fan training on a sunny, south facing wall
- Suitable for growing as a bush tree
- Pollination group C but self fertile
- Popular mid to late season dessert variety - pick from early/mid August
- Prune young trees in early spring and more established trees in mid-summer to avoid silverleaf
- Medium Fruit is reddish purple in colour with yellow/green flesh
- Supplied with siting, planting and training leaflet
- Comes in maiden form for easy training and pruning
- Good pollinator for other plum varieties
- Dessert variety but also great in the kitchen in jams and pies
- See our Guide to Successful Fruit Trees for more growing advice
Delivery - delivery of your fruit trees is £9.95 to most parts of the UK. Unfortunately fruit trees are unable to be delivered to Northern Ireland and Eire. Customers in the Scottish highlands and islands should e-mail our Customer Services Department or telephone on 0333 400 6400 (local rate) for a quotation.
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Planting and Delivery Information
See our Guide to Successful Fruit Trees for more growing advice.
Planting - do not attempt to plant your fruit trees when the ground is frozen or waterlogged. The trees can be stored in their packaging in an outbuilding or garage for 2-3 days, or can be heeled into the soil where the ground is not as frozen. Alternatively, plant up in large pots or containers and ensure the roots have good contact with the soil.
Delivery - delivery of your fruit trees is £9.95 to most parts of the UK. Unfortunately fruit trees are unable to be delivered to Northern Ireland and Eire. Customers in the Scottish highlands and islands should e-mail our Customer Services Department or telephone on 0333 400 6400 for a quotation.
