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Mirabelle Plum ‘Countess’ now being harvested 8th Aug 2015

Now here we have an early Mirabelle plum. It originated in the Ukraine and is dark red skinned with yellow

Pick – Early August, Store – August Plum Japanese – Beauty (prunus salicina) tends to be smaller than a later

Successful Plant Health inspection – to ship Plum rootstock and scions to Japan. Next step is the physical pre shipping

It looks promising for this year, the crop of Japanese plums ‘Beauty’ They are just beginning to start turning colour.

The first 3 photos are some cleft grafts. The first 2 are of apples with the 3rd being a plum.

Not far behind the early Japanese plums, here is Opal the 1st of the English plums. Nice and juicy and

Just a few weeks after the red skinned and red fleshed Methley, we have the yellow skinned and yellow fleshed

Many people have asked whats the flesh like, as it is described as blood red. So I have taken a

Methley is the first of our Japanese plums that is ripe today. Many more to come in the next week.

This is the first time that I can remember that we have had pigeon damage to the new shoots of