Victoria Plum Trees

Victoria Plum Trees

Victoria plum trees are a safe bet. They're reliable croppers that produce one of the best known eating plums in huge quantities: sweet and juicy, and excellent for cooking, jam making and desserts. They're famous for breaking under the weight of their crops if you neglect to thin them at the fruitlet stage, removing at least every other plum, even two thirds on a really productive tree. You will get larger and better fruit this way, so your yield won't decrease as much as you might expect, and will certainly be bigger than if a branch falls off!

Please note: The normal versions of this tree are only sold bareroot and delivered in winter (Nov-March). The mini patio version is pot grown and delivered year round.
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Features

• Very heavy cropper: thinning is essential
• Harvest August-September
• Bareroot delivery: Nov-March
• Pot grown delivery (Mini patio form only): Year round
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Like most stone fruit, she loves richer soils and a warm spot. They're self-fertile and pollinate other plums, damsons and mirabelles well. The season for picking usually runs from August into September

These plums have a reputation for being wasp magnets; they crop so heavily that there is almost always some over-ripe fruit around the place. Hang wasp traps (made out of glass jars half-filled with sugary water or beer) on at least three or four "corners" of your trees in early July. Clear them out and keep them going, and they'll neutralise the wasp scouts before they make it home to inform their sisters.