Czar Plum Trees

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Czar Plum Trees Czar Plums are large, dark purple/blue and with sharp, yellow flesh. They're very edible although not as sweet as, say, a Victoria, but they have the real advantage of being one of the best plums for cooking and making jam. The fruit's less juicy than a pure eating plum so it's firmer and holds together better when cooked. Czar was bred in the 19th-century by Thomas River (perhaps the greatest fruit breeder of his day) and is one of the easiest of the plum trees we sell to grow, a key factor in its Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. It's an unusually frost-resistant variety and so will do much better than most plums and gages in north-facing and semi-shady sites (please remember that no plum will really crop well in heavy shade - it's just that Czar is more shade tolerant than most). Czar plum trees are self-fertile, fruit from August and are magnificent pollinators of other plums. If you aren't sure what to do with them, then just try Czar plums in Mary Berry's Plumb Crumble - you will be won over in the first mouthful. Please note that all our Czar plum trees are on St Julien A rootstocks unless otherwise described. Show more