Plum (Berries, minor fruits and fruit trees)

American Hybrid variety

Large, attractive, marbled red fruit about 4 cm (1 5/8") in diameter. Sweet, juicy, yellow, orange flesh makes it pleasant to eat fresh, but also suitable for canning, preserving or processing.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Superior plum, Toka plum, Black ice plum, American plum, Black plum, Brookred plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 3

Harvest : End of August

American Hybrid Variety

Ultra-juicy, sweet and spicy amber flesh makes for a refreshing and enjoyable experience. Medium to large size, purple-red plums store surprisingly well in the refrigerator. The compact tree starts producing early and continues with a constant abundance.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: American plum, black plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 3

Harvest: September

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American Hybrid

An upright, densely branched tree that bears medium-sized dark purple plums with juicy red flesh. Tecumseh plums are good to eat fresh, in jam or jelly. Plums ripen in September. Prefer well-drained soil in full sun. Prune when young to create an open branching structure so that there is an even distribution of light and more consistent ripening of the plums.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Brookred plum, Brookgold plum, Pembina plum, Canada plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 3

Wild Plum Tree

Pollinator producing small plums. Beautiful bloom in May. The tree is not grafted so the fruits can be of variable quality. Always excellent for jam and cooking. Often good to eat fresh too. Extremely productive. Resistant to the black knot that affects plum trees of European origin.

Pollination: Excellent pollinator for hybrid plums, Japanese plums and cherry plums (chum).

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4

1X Frost Peach or 1X Hardy Red Nectarine,

1X Nadia Plum or Brooks Plum,

1X Puget Gold Apricot or Harcot Apricot.

Japanese

Dark red fruit with very tasty, sweet flesh. Harvest in mid-September. Prune during dormant season (late March, early April).

Pollination: Self-sterile, requires a second plum tree for cross-pollination.

Planting distance between plum trees: 12 ft.

Hardiness zone: 5

American and Asian cross variety.

The fruit is sweet, juicy and semi-clingy. Purple in color, its fruits reach maturity at the end of August. It is also very resistant to diseases. This plum is the result of a complex cross of sand cherry (Prunus besseyi) with Japanese plum genetics. The breeder's goal was to obtain a Japanese type plum that was robust enough to grow in the northern Midwest, yet had the quality to compete with Japanese plums readily available in the summer markets of West Coast growers.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Toka plum, American plum, La Crescent plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4

Plum mix - 4 varieties on the same tree: Waneta, Toka, Brooks red, Black Ice, Green gage

Hardiness zone: 3

Pollination: Self-fertilizing but best results with two plum trees.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hybrid variety

The best pollinator for Japanese, European, or American varieties

Produces large, firm, yellow-fleshed red fruit with a unique spicy flavor. It has a very good resistance to diseases such as black knot which affects a lot of European type plum trees in our humid summers. For fresh or canned consumption. Fruiting takes 2 to 3 years after planting.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: American plum, Black plum, Alderman plum, Burbank plum, Fortune plum, Early Golden plum, Vampire plum, Shiro plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone : 3b

Hybrid variety

Vigorous and productive plum tree. Red plums, sweet, good quality. Harvest at the end of August. 

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: American plum, black plum.

Planting distance between two trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 3

Japanese variety

Super beautiful variety of plum tree resistant to black nodule and giving very good yield. Fruits ripen in late August, early September. Large round dark red fruits, with firm yellow flesh, juicy and sweet.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Early Golden plum, Shiro plum, Toka plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4

Plum trees like 1/2 day full sun and well drained soil.

Wild Plum

The black plum (Prunus nigra) is the best pollinator for hybrid plum trees. It also produces a tasty and very sweet fruit. The black plum, or Prunus nigra, is the wild plum tree of Canada. Their fruit is delicious, so be sure to pick them when they are ripe. They are magnificent in spring with their bloom, and their perfume invades the surroundings... Resulting from seedlings, it has not been grafted.

Pollination: Excellent pollinator for all American hybrid plum trees.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 2

European variety

Small dark blue fruit with an adherent stone, whose yellow-green flesh is very juicy. Delicious fresh, in preserves or jams. Fruiting takes 3 to 5 years after planting. Ripens in early to mid-September. Pruning is done at the end of winter. In autumn, install a spiral on the trunk to protect it from sunburn and rodents, for the first years.

Pollination: Self-fertile but best results with two plum trees.

Compatible varieties: Mirabelle plum, President plum, Reine-Claude plum, Empress plum, German plum, Late Italian plum, Mount Royal plum, New York 9 plum, Stanley plum.

Planting distance between two trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone : 3b

Asian variety

Round fruit, golden yellow washed with red; juicy flesh and non-adherent pit. Can be eaten fresh or made into jam. Produces a good crop every 2 years. It will start producing fruit 2 to 3 years after planting. Maturity in early August. Pruning is done at the end of winter.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Burbank plum, Alderman plum, Elephant Heart plum, Shiro plum, Vampire plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 3b

Disease: Resistant to black knot.

Japanese variety

With a larger than average size and a rounded stem end tapering to a soft point, it does indeed look like a large heart. It has a mottled pistachio and purple skin, deepening to burgundy red with a powdery matte finish. When ripe, it is heavy in the hand, full of sweet juice and firm but delicate flesh, flushed with deep ruby red color throughout. The Elephant Heart plum is floral and sweet with just a hint of acid, and should be eaten within a few days of purchase as it has a short shelf life at maturity. 

Pollination: Self-fertile. It will bear fruit alone, but it is always better to have two cultivars for a better yield. 

Compatible varieties: Early Golden plum, Burbank plum, Shiro plum, Vampire plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone : 5

Hybrid variety

Plum Fofonoff - Also known as Homesteader

The Fofonoff plum is a "must" for the northern climate. Fofonoff comes to us from Saskatchewan and produces a firm, yellow-skinned, sweet and juicy plum. It is an excellent plum to eat fresh and to make jam.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible variety: Black plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 2b

Japanese variety

High quality plum with red skin and yellow flesh with little flavor. They ripen in early August and bloom in early spring. They need deep clay soils. Fortune plums are large and have a dark red skin, while their pulp is light yellow with orange hues. The pulp is juicy and low in fiber with a sweet flavor. It is perfect to be eaten fresh, in dessert or in salad, but also to add a special touch to your meats or your fish cooked in the oven.

Pollination: Self-sterilizing. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Elephant Heart plum, Early Golden plum, Shiro plum, Burbank plum, Vampire plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4b

European variety

Purple and sweet plum. To be eaten fresh, a little sweet, plum tree. Small open pit.

Pollination: Self-fertile but better results if pollinated with another plum tree.

Compatible varieties: Mirabelle plum, President plum, Reine-Claude plum, Blue Damask plum, Empress plum, Late Italian plum, Mount Royal plum, New York 9 plum, Stanley plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 4

Disease: Susceptible to black knot

European variety

Fruits are round, greenish, then somewhat green-golden when ripe; juicy and sweet. The stone is not very adherent. European type, it must be planted with another European plum variety for pollination. Harvest in mid-September. Excellent for jams, preserves or fresh eating! Does not tolerate very cold temperatures of -35°C during winter. Pruning is done at the end of winter. In the fall, install a spiral on the trunk to protect it from sunburn and rodents.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Mirabelle plum, President plum, Empress plum, German plum, Late Italian plum, Mount Royal plum, New York 9 plum, Stanley plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4b

Disease: Susceptible to black knot.

European variety

Upright habit becoming more or less rounded with age. Likes rich, fresh and well drained soil. Must be well sheltered from the wind. Yellow autumn foliage. White and fragrant flowers. Produces sweet, elongated, firm plums. Fruits are blue, almost black, with greenish-yellow flesh and adherent pits. Fruits 3 to 5 years after planting. Good for fresh consumption. Exceptional for conservation or preserves.

Pollination: Self-fertile but best results if pollinated with another plum tree.

Compatible varieties: Mirabelle plum, President plum, Reine-Claude plum, Blue Damask plum, Empress plum, German plum, Mount Royal plum, New York 9 plum, Stanley plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone : 4a

Hybrid variety

Produces large plums of a beautiful dark red color. Its plums are harvested between late June and mid-July. Its red-purple flesh is soft, very juicy, slightly acid and sweet. 

Pollination: Self-fertile, very productive.

Hardiness zone: 4b

European variety

Blue or purple plum with very sweet, melting and aromatic yellow flesh. Fruits ripen around mid-September and this variety is European which means that another European plum tree can be pollinated by this species.

On the other hand, very susceptible to the microscopic fungus (black nodule) which causes the ugly black tumors and kills the tree in a few years. Preventive treatments can be applied.

Pollination: Self-fertile.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 3

Japanese variety

The fruit is of big size, with red skin with purplish tones. The pulp has a yellow color.

Taste: The fruit has a sweet, aromatic and slightly astringent taste.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Shiro plum, Burbank plum, Early Golden plum, Vampire plum, Toka plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4b

Hybrid variety

Large red plum. Juicy fruit with sweet flesh, thick skin and a bit of tartness. Good choice for desserts, it is fair for cooking and canning. Excellent choice of plum tree for the North because it has a good tolerance to cold. 

This plum tree is a hybrid between a Japanese plum and an American plum. The plum tree is more productive every other year. 

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: American plum, black plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 2

European variety

The small dark purple fruits make one of the best plums for drying and making prunes. Very sweet and delicious, it is also ideal for eating fresh.

Plum trees like 1/2 day full sun and well drained soil.

Pollination requirements: The Petite Prune d'Agen is partially self-fertile. Plant with another European variety for better yields.

Compatible varieties: President plum, Reine-Claude plum, Empress plum, German plum, Late Italian plum, Mont-Royal plum, New York 9 plum, Stanley plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness: 4

Size at maturity: 10-12 ft. high.

Flowering period: March

Pests and diseases: Our plums are not bothered by pests. Bacterial canker can occasionally damage the trunks or branches. The symptoms of this disease are exudations of amber sap. Lime-sulfur or copper sprays in the fall and early spring can help control bacterial canker.

Small, 1.25 inch (4 cm) wide, yellow-green, firm fruit with greenish, very sweet flesh. Core not adherent. Ripens in mid-August. Delicious in the mouth. Cooked, it has a peach taste. High yield.

Pollination: Self-pollinating. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Brookgold plum, Green Elf plum, Fofonoff plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4

Deciduous, upright, open-leafed fruit tree with oval to elliptical, toothed, medium green leaves and white flowers in late spring, followed by large, oval to round, reddish-purple fruits with sweet yellow-orange flesh, ready for harvest in late summer or early fall.

Pollination: Self-fertile

Hardiness zone: 4b

Asian variety

This plum tree produces an abundance of yellow fruits tinged with pink, of medium size, with a sweet yellow flesh and a sticky stone. Fruiting will begin 2 to 3 years after planting. Maturity in mid-August. Pruning is done at the end of winter.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Vampire plum, Early Golden plum, Toka plum, Burbank plum, Alderman plum, Elephant Heart plum, Black ice plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 5

Disease: Resistant to black knot.

European variety

Blue fruit with firm flesh. Harvest in September. Prune during the dormant period (end of March, beginning of April).

Pollination: Self-fertile

Hardiness zone : 4b

Hybrid variety

The 'La Crescent' plum produces a sweet and juicy fruit with a flavor similar to the apricot. The appearance is also similar to the apricot with its yellow to orange skin and yellow flesh. The plum is melting and not fibrous. Its stone is non-sticky (it detaches easily from the flesh), which makes it easier to prepare in cooking. Plum to be eaten fresh, in dessert or to be used in jam.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: American plum, black plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 4

Disease: It is sensitive to sifting, a disease of fungal origin.

Japanese variety

A late mid-season plum with medium to large fruit size. It has an attractive mix of bright green and ruby red skin. The flesh is red and very juicy. Has more cold tolerance than any other red flesh plum here in Canada. 

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Shiro plum, Burbank plum, Early Golden plum, Ozark premier plum, Toka plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4b

European variety

Blue-purple fruit with yellow flesh, loose pit, medium to large size, ovoid, good quality. Ripens around August 17 in Vineland, three days after Valerie. 

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Stanley plum, Late Italian plum, German plum, Empress plum, Blue Damask plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone: 3

American variety

Large, juicy red fruits of good quality. Dark yellow flesh, good for fresh consumption. Ripens at the end of July, high yield. Likes rich, fresh and well drained soil types.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: American plum, Black plum, Vicks plum.

Planting distance between the two trees: 12 feet.

Hardiness zone : 3

European variety

As the name suggests, the Yellow Egg plum is a type of European plum shaped like a yellow egg. Known for being slightly smaller, European plums are a great addition to home orchards for their freshness when allowed to fully ripen, as well as for their use in pies, tarts and various savory recipes. 

Pollination: Self-fertile, best when planted with other plum trees.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4b

The original plum/apricot hybrid introduced by Luther Burbank, sometimes referred to as the Burbank Plumcot. Both the tree form and fruit appearance show the plum influence. The tree itself is much more vigorous and is healthier looking than most apricots. In fact, with its glossy abundant foliage and tall shrubby form it makes an ideal landscaping specimen. Large, round fruit has melon-red blush over yellow skin. Golden yellow, super juicy, plum-like flesh has a tangy touch of that aromatic apricot flavour. In our opinion, a tree-ripened Plumcot offers a delectable eating experience that is unparalleled in the entire fruit realm!

Pollination: semi-sterile. Requires another plumcot tree for pollination. When trees are marked as SEMI-FERTILE. These will set fruit without a second tree. However they will often bear more, and sometimes larger fruit if another variety of the same kind of tree is nearby.

Compatible varieties: Burbank plum, Fofonoff plum, Black ice plum, Early Golden plum, Fortune plum, Shiro plum, Brookred plum, Brookgold plum, La Crescent plum, Pembina plum.

Planting distance between two trees: 12 feet

Soil and sun preference: Half to full sun, well drained soil

Hardiness zone: 5

Apricot meets plum!

This unique cross produces plums with red-black skin and red-gold flesh that are very sweet: 33% sugar. The fruits are larger and firmer than other varieties of the same kind. The tree is vigorous and productive. Ripens at the end of July.

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Burbank plum, Elephant Heart plum, Fortune plum, Shiro plum, Vampire plum.

Planting distance between two trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4b

For zone 5-6

will be pollinated by plumcots or other pluots

Pluots, by definition, are three-quarters plum and one-quarter apricot. Possibly the best known Pluot variety is Dapple Dandy, created by famed fruit breeder Floyd Zaiger of Modesto, California. The skin of this large, chubby-cheeked fruit turns to a mottled maroon and pale-yellow, when ripe, giving rise to the whimsical name of 'Dinosaur Egg', under which it has also been marketed. The flesh, which is bright red, fading to a pinkish white near the centre, is incredibly sweet with a distinct plum apricot flavour that has given Dapple Dandy the winning edge in numerous taste tests. It is known as a good pollenizer for other pluots and plumcots.

for zone 5 or 6 and need to be pollinated by other pluot or plumcot

The Pluot is “Interspecific”, meaning it is a complex hybrid of 70 percent plum, 30 percent apricot with decidedly more plum-like traits. Also called a plumcot, the fruit of a Pluot is smooth-skinned like a plum, sturdy and durable with luscious flavor. It has the juiciness of a fully ripe plum without the notoriously tough skin and tart center that is typical of a plum.

The Flavor Queen Pluot® is a new and distinct variety, characterized by its large size, vigorous, semi-spreading growth and is a productive and regular bearer of firm, yellow flesh, clingstone fruit. A great source of vitamin A!

Flavor Queen fruit tends to stay firm on the tree for 12 to 15 days after maturity, having excellent eating and storage quality.

Pollinate with Santa Rosa, Methley, or other early blooming Japanese plum. The Flavor Queen Pluot® blooms early mid-season and ripens in late July-August.

For zone 5-6

Another winner from Zaiger Hybrids in California, Flavor Supreme® is the first pluot of the season to ripen and as one grower put it - "The most coveted early fruit in our orchard." Greenish-purple mottled skin covers the rich, honey sweet, burgundy-red flesh with dribble off-your-chin juiciness. Like all pluots, Flavor Supreme® boasts a substantially higher sugar content than either a plum or an apricot can attain on it's own. It will cross-pollinate with other pluots or a Japanese plum such as Santa Rosa or Toka

Hybrid variety

Medium-sized fruit with red-purple skin and flesh. Fleshy, sweet and rich without astringency. The skin and flesh are dark purple on this round and fleshy plum of 4 cm with a very small pit. 

Pollination: Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination. 

Compatible varieties: Pembina plum, Grenville plum, Toka plum, Waneta plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 4

Hybrid variety

Sweet fruit of good size, red with juicy yellow flesh. Harvest in early September. Prune during the dormant season (late March, early April).

It pollinates well American plum trees or American/Japanese hybrids. 

Pollination : Self-sterile. Requires another plum tree for pollination.

Compatible varieties: Toka plum, Fofonoff plum, Black ice plum, Grenville plum, La Crescent plum, Pembina plum.

Planting distance between trees: 12 feet

Hardiness zone: 3