Plums

Delicious yellow green soft fleshed plum with transparent skin. It came from the schoolgrounds at Maungamuka.

Marabella Plum
Uses: Dessert, Bottling
Ripe: Late December
Pollinator: Self Fertile
Origin: Cox, Northland
Available: Scionwood

Our most reliable, heaviest cropping plum. This plum came to our collection from Jim and June Cox and to them as collectors from a family whose ancestors had picked it up on the journey over when their boat stopped in South Africa. It is a well known South African plum. lt is a small plum, red skin, yellow flesh and is an O.K desert plum but it is an outstanding cooking plum. with an almond flavour and no bitterness at all. We love them for breakfast. Self fertile.

Marabella Plums crop heavily every year.

This is an outstanding plum, from the collection of the late Dan Hansen of Wilderland fame. Dan was an amazing gardener and collected many fruit trees whose value he saw. This is one of the best (Dan’s Early is another). It is a large, dark red meaty plum which is full of flavour and very sweet. It is always a vigorous growing tree.

Yellow flesh and skin, large, sweet, juiciy melting. Ex Kaipara Harbour, well known by the locals on Whakapirau Beach, huge crops. Large spreading tree, good health.

This is a very special plum that I found growing in a long abandoned orchard on the Ahipara Gumfields many years ago. We think it is the old Victoria plum that many people ask us for. It is a large egg shaped classic looking prune except it ripens earlier than all the others, in January. With a dark red skin, yellow very sweet sugary flesh and free stone it is an excellent plum.

Burbank Plums were some of the very earliest plums to enter the North (came into the Kaipara with the Dalmatians) and all the old orchards had one. They are quite small trees that are easy to manage and they are very heavy reliable croppers The fruit is large, with a dark red blush over most of the yellow skin when ripe and the flesh is yellow and comes away from the stone when fully ripe.  Especially great if you have a small space.

Large dark red meaty flesh, purple/green skin, freestone, excellent taste, pick over long period keeps well. From an old French orchard in the Hokianga. Heavy precocious cropper.  Partially self-fertile hedgerow pollinator plums will help.

Soft, very sweet, purple skin. Yellow flesh.
 

Small, yellow flesh and skin, very sweet.
 

Meribel
Uses: Dessert, Bottling, Jam
Ripe: Early Jan
Pollinator: Self Fertile
Origin: Matakohe
Available: Scionwood

Yellow flesh, red skin

Yellow flesh and skin, excellent dessert.
 

Apricot texture and flavour.
 

Red skin, yellow flesh, freestone.
 

Yellow, transparent skin with red flecks.
 

Red skin, yellow flesh, small.
 

Red skin and flesh
 

Red flesh and skin
 

Large red/ yellow skin. Yellow flesh

Red skin and flesh, small, prolific, good taste.
 

Very special flavour, delicate
 

Very special, large, meaty, red skin and flesh. Excellent flavour.
 

Large Plum, excellent flavour.