Plum Tree Pollination

Guide to Pollinating Plum Trees 

Use our easy pollination checking tables  or pollination tool to quickly find partners for a given tree, or browse the table below.

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.