{"id":2552,"date":"2009-04-16T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:06:17","slug":"plum-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/plum-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Plum Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spring is well underway but I must take care of my blossom on the Victoria plum. It looks fantastic at the moment and speaks of a good crop this summer but a nip of frost just now would be a real let down. Plums are prone to frost damage <\/strong>and as I am prone to eat Plum jam I will try protect this tree and its blossom.<\/p>\n

As the tree has grown above a safe picking height I will trim the upper branches later<\/strong> in summer when the danger of silver leaf disease is much lower.<\/p>\n

To augment my plum crop I planted a Czar plum<\/strong> (see below) at the beginning of 2008 and it is showing a very upright habit. This I will encourage into a bowl like shape to get air and light into the centre of the tree for future years. At the moment the rhubarb is a bit too rampant under the plum so I think it will have to come out .<\/p>\n

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Czar<\/strong>
\nCzar is an old variety and a good eating plum that produces medium-sized round or oval purple plums. They have of good flavour.
\nThe flesh is yellow-green, sharper than a Victoria and very juicy for picking in August.
\nIt is a good-cropper and hardier than most varieties suitable for the North of England<\/p>\n

Victoria<\/strong>
\nAlso a 19th century variety with large fruits, and an excellent taste.
\nA heavy cropper, producing fruit in September with flesh that is very juicy and green to yellow.<\/p>\n

The UK National Fruit collection has a prunus armenica and prunus domestica (Plum) collections in Brogdale with 305 varieties.<\/p>\n

The earliest ripening plum in the collection at the RHS<\/a> is usually ‘Early Laxton’ in July while the latest is ‘Golden Bullace’ in October.\u00c2\u00a0Some of the best flavoured are known as gages including ‘The Old Greengage’ (also known as ‘Reine Claude’)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is well underway but I must take care of my blossom on the Victoria plum. It looks fantastic at the moment and speaks of a good crop this summer but a nip of frost just now would be a real let down. Plums are prone to frost damage and as I am prone to eat Plum jam I will try protect this tree and its blossom. As the tree has grown above a safe picking height I will trim…<\/p>\n

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