Guide to Pollinating Plum Trees
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Plums, Gages, Damsons, Mirabelles and Bullaces are closely related trees in the Group Prunus domestica, so they pollinate each other when they are in flower at the same time.
Most of them are either reliably self fertile or partially self fertile, so pollination is much less of an issue than with most other fruit trees, especially considering how likely it is that there are already some compatible plums in your neighbourhood.
Pollination groups represent flowering periods, and trees will cross pollinate with other trees in their own group and adjacent groups, e.g. a tree in Pollination Group C will cross pollinate with trees in groups B, C, and D (note that the letters can be replaced with numbers, so Group C is the same as Group 3).
For example, a tree in group C will cross-pollinate with trees in groups B, C and D.
| Name | Use | Harvest | Pollination Group | Fertility | Colour |
| Aprimira (Miracot) | Dessert | Aug | A / B | Self Fertile | Yellow-Pink |
| Jeffersons Gage | Dessert | Late Aug | B | Non Self Fertile | Green |
| Mirabelle Golden Sphere | Dual | Mid Aug | B | Partially Self Fertile | Yellow |
| Mirabelle Ruby | Dessert | Late Aug | B | Partially Self Fertile | Red-Purple |
| Belle de Louvain | Culinary | Aug | C | Self Fertile | Purple |
| Coe's Golden Drop | Dessert | Late Sept | C | Non Self Fertile | Yellow |
| Dennistons Superb | Dessert | Late Aug | C | Self Fertile | Yellow |
| Rivers Early Prolific | Culinary | Late July | C | Partially Self Fertile | Blue |
| Langley Bullace | Culinary | Late Sept | C | Self Fertile | Blue-Black |
| Merryweather Damson | Culinary | Early Sept | C | Self Fertile | Blue-Black |
| Opal | Dessert | Early Aug | C | Self Fertile | Purple |
| Reine Claude de Bavay Gage | Dessert | Sept | C | Self Fertile | Green-Yellow |
| Shepherds Bullace | Culinary | Oct-Nov | C | Self Fertile | Green-Yellow |
| Victoria | Dual | Late Aug | C | Self Fertile | Red |
| Willingham Gage | Dual | Mid Aug | C | Partially Self Fertile | Green |
| Cambridge Gage | Dual | Mid August | D | Partially Self Fertile | Green |
| Czar | Culinary | Early Aug | D | Self Fertile | Blue |
| Farleigh Damson | Culinary | Mid Sept | D | Self Fertile | Purple-Black |
| King Damson | Culinary | Mid Sept | D | Self Fertile | Purple |
| Old Greengage | Dessert | Early Sept | D | Non Self Fertile | Green-Yellow |
| Oullins Golden Gage | Dual | Mid Aug | D | Partially Self Fertile | Yellow |
| Shropshire Prune (Damson) | Culinary | Early Sept | D | Self Fertile | Blue-Black |
| Marjorie's Seedling | Dual | Late Sept | E | Partially Self Fertile | Blue |
| Mirabelle de Nancy | Dual | Late Aug | E | Partially Self Fertile | Yellow |