Below is a list of the apple scion wood available for purchase during our Winter Field Day Event:
Beauty Japanese Plum
Beauty is one of the richest-flavored Japanese plums; a wonderful blend of sweet and tart that melts in your mouth. The tree is fast growing and extremely productive, bearing bright red, medium-sized fruit with amber-streaked, red flesh. This was one of developer Luther Burbank’s favorites of his plum varieties and was introduced in 1911. The fruit is reminiscent of Santa Rosa, but much better suited to cool weather growers. Beauty starts producing at an early age, sometimes the year after planting! Self-fertile in most regions, and a good pollinizer for other Asian plums. Low chill: only needing 250 hours to reliably set fruit.
Early Golden
When we say “Early”, we’re not kidding! This vigorous, upright, open grower produces heaps of medium-sized, round yellow plums that have a delicate red blush and meaty, freestone, golden flesh. It ripens a heavy crop of satisfying fruit in July, along with the super-early Kuban Komet, and two weeks before Shiro. Make certain to thin the fruit each year – overproduction may cause biennial bearing. Discovered as a chance seedling in Fonthill, Canada; it remains one of our most hardy Asian plums. It needs a pollinizer, and any other Asian variety will work well.
Early Laxton
The Early Laxton plum tree is a tasty European heirloom plum with refreshing flavor. Bright pinkish orange fruit dotted with rose and violet. The Early Laxton plums are juicy, sweet, freestone, and high in vitamin C. A heavy bearer, the Early Laxton plum must be thinned to avoid weighted branches. Partially self-fertile, but yield will increase in the presence of another European plum. As the name suggests our earliest ripening European plum tree.
Ersinger German Plum
A “German Prune” plum with delicious flavor and truly spectacular fragrance. It crops heavily and ripens early in the season. The skin is blue and the shape is oblong to pointed.
Hollywood Plum
This versatile Asian plum tree is a stunner in all seasons! It’s loaded with showy pink blossoms early each spring. The leaves of this 12 foot tall ornamental stay a rich, deep burgundy from spring to fall. In mid-summer it produces an abundance of large, round, dark red plums with deep red flesh. They are delicious when eaten fresh and make a gorgeous jam, jelly, wine or juice. Reliably self fertile and only needing 300-400 chill hours makes this an easy choice for gardeners all over the nation. It’s been adding glamour to productive landscapes since 1936.
Imperial Epineuse European Plum
This wonderfully flavorful, sweet French prune plum has been used at the English National Fruit Trials as a standard to judge prune flavor. The medium-to-large plums have dusky burgundy/purple skin and clear amber flesh when perfectly ripe. The flavor is fabulous, and the fresh texture is dense, silky and succulent. The tree is an attractive upright grower, not as much of a spreader as many other plums. Requires a different variety Euro plum as a pollinizer. The freestone fruit ripens in late August.
Italian Plum
Italian plums, also known as prune plums or Empress plums, are small, deep-purple, oblong fruits with firm, yellow, freestone flesh (pit separates easily). Available for a short time in late summer, they are sweet with a slightly tart, citrusy flavor, making them ideal for eating fresh, drying into prunes, or baking into crisp, cakes, and jams.
Jubileum Plum
Enjoy loads of flavorful large pink/purple plums on this sturdy self-fertile tree. Jubileum was bred in Sweden. It is similar to Victoria but ripens a week earlier in August and has larger fruit. Great for eating or processing.
Kuban Comet Plum
A unique cultivar from Krymsk, Russia. This teardrop-shaped, clingstone plum has bright yellow, very sweet flesh. Kuban Comet is extremely hardy, so it thrives in cold climates. The self-fertile, dwarf tree, which reaches about 10′ tall, is very productive and easy to grow. 2 inch-long, yellow-orange fruits turn red when fully ripe in late July, and the tart skin resists cracks. Mature tree will usually require supporting the long, wide branches before harvest since they will bend deeply under the weight of all their fruit! An unusually early bloomer, it is in bloom along with Asian plums here in the PNW. Not good to use as a pollinizer for other Euro plums.
Mount Royal Plum
Mount Royal Plum is a highly cold-hardy, self-fertile European heirloom variety (USDA zones 4–9) originating from Canada in the 1700s. It produces small-to-medium, dark blue, freestone plums with sweet, yellow-green flesh that are ideal for fresh eating, jams, and canning. The tree thrives in full sun, and bears heavy crops in August.
Prune d’Ente
New to American gardeners, this French ‘Agen’ prune plum is highly prized in France for its large, very sweet fruit with violet-red skin and yellow flesh. Outstanding eaten fresh or dried, stewed or made into jams, the fruit matures in early September in France.
Seneca
This extraordinarily large plum is sweet, luscious, and freestone! Featuring beautiful purple/red skin and rich amber flesh, individual fruits can weigh up to 3 ounces each! Enjoy the fruit fresh, preserved as chutney or an amazing fruit topping, or canned solo. Seneca is a regular bearer on an upright, vigorous tree. It needs a pollinizer and ripens in early September here in the PNW. An introduction from the N.Y. Experiment Station, it has proven one of the best European plums in the WSU Mount Vernon tests year after year.
Shiro Asian Plum
The Shiro plum is a large, round, yellow plum with a mild, sweet flavor and sunshine yellow, translucent flesh. The Luther Burbank variety, introduced in 1899, is very prolific, the fruit ripens early, and it’s ridiculously juicy. You might want to get out a bib for this one! The fast-producing tree reliably cranks out loads of clingstone fruit every mid-summer, and builds a rather short, wide, layered form. Requires 400-500 chill hours to set fruit and doubles its fruit production each year for the first 5 years!
Valor
A large dark purple plum with yellow flesh, similar to Marjorie’s Seedling, but with a sweeter flavor. Valor is generally considered self-fertile, but some authorities believe it is self-sterile.
