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Description

What could be more satisfying than being able to pick your own home-grown plums? This 'Victoria' Plum tree will provide you with mouth-wateringly delicious fruits that will be ready to pick from July. A favourite here in the UK, this variety of plum tree will also provide you with gorgeous pink blossom in the spring. Once fully established, this tree can produce up to 100lb of fruit in a bumper season because it is self-fertile.

Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. This plum variety has also been recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators'.

Expect fruit from approximately 3-4 years after planting.

Supplied as a 1.35-1.45m tall, grower quality, multi-branched bare root tree, grown on a small to medium rootstock. Will grow to approximately 2m across 10 years when trimmed, but can stretch up to 6m. Fully winter hardy and self fertile.

Top Tips

Add Rootgrow Mycorrhizal Fungi to give your plants a head start and establish more quickly.

Care Information

Apply a slow-release fertiliser such as blood, fish and bone in early spring, and mulch to retain moisture.
For the biggest, juiciest plums, thin the fruits in May by removing some of the smaller, immature fruits. Then in July, while the plums are still hard, remove any that are damaged or diseased or touching others.
Water regularly, and don't let the soil dry out if planted in pots.
Hang wasp traps in trees and harvest crops as soon as they ripen. Avoid leaving windfalls or over-ripe fruit on the ground.
Prune trees in late in July when they're in full growth. For young trees, take back the new upright growth by about a third. For older, mature trees, remove any dead, diseased or dying branches and then prune the older branches hard to promote productivity, aiming for an overall goblet shape.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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