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Description

Plum 'Mirabelle de Nancy' is a real treasure for fruit lovers! This charming cherry plum produces masses of small golden fruits with yellow flesh, a tiny stone and a wonderfully sweet, juicy flavour with a peach-like richness that is hard to forget. Once tasted, they last long in the memory!

This variety is wonderfully rewarding to grow, producing an early crop from the middle of summer into September, so you can enjoy homegrown plums while many other fruit trees are still building towards their peak. The fruits are delicious eaten straight from the tree, but they also shine in the kitchen, where they are excellent for baking, crumbles, tarts and preserves.

'Mirabelle de Nancy' is grown on Pixy rootstock, which keeps it more compact and upright than many plum trees. That makes it a smart choice for smaller gardens where space matters, while still delivering generous harvests and easy picking in years to come. It is also self-fertile, so there is no need to plant a partner nearby to enjoy fruit.

Supplied as an established plant in a 5 litre pot, approximately 90 to 110cm tall, ready to plant.

Top Tips

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

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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