We take great care in delivering healthy trees to your doorstep. Each order is hand-picked, carefully packaged, and shipped using trusted couriers to ensure safe arrival.
Delivery Times
Standard Delivery (3–5 working days): £6.95
Express Delivery (1–2 working days): £12.95
Free Delivery: On all orders over £100
Packaging
All trees are shipped in eco-friendly recyclable packaging. Roots are securely wrapped to retain moisture during transit, keeping your tree healthy and ready for planting.
Delivery Areas
We currently deliver across the UK mainland. Unfortunately, we cannot deliver to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands due to plant health regulations.
Order Tracking
Once your order has been dispatched, you will receive a tracking link by email so you can follow your tree’s journey from our nursery to your garden.
Special Notes
If you require delivery on a specific date (e.g., birthday gift, landscaping project), please add a note at checkout and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Most plums are either reliably self fertile or partially self fertile, so pollination is much less of an issue than with most other fruit trees; even “Non-Self Fertile” varieties are more like “Low-Self Fertile”. And there are probably compatible plums already in your neighbourhood.
Plums, Gages, Damsons, Mirabelles and Bullaces are closely related trees of the species Prunus domestica and its subspecies insititia, so they pollinate each other when they are in flower at the same time.
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.
‘Victoria’ plums are the default must-have go-to for a single or first tree. Otherwise,
Remember that self-fertile fruit trees are not really self-pollinating: they still need bees and other insects to move their pollen around their flowers.
Insects (Mainly Bees) are Vital for Pollination
Bees and other insects carry pollen between flowers: even self-fertile trees need them to move their own pollen around their flowers, so an orchard is an ideal place for a beehive, and to encourage wild bees. In exposed, windy locations, or at high altitude above about 800ft, bees find it hard to fly, so it is even more important to provide habitats and windbreaks to help them out; also, it’s best to stick to reliably self-fertile varieties that make the most of limited pollinators.
How close do plum trees need to be to cross-pollinate?
The closer they are, the better, but anything within 500 feet / 150 metres should be fine.
Can Plums Pollinate Apples or Pears or Cherries?
No, plums won’t pollinate cherries or any other fruit tree.
The Cherry Plum tree, Prunus cerasifera, is not a plum-cherry hybrid, but is probably ancestral to most cultivated plums of pure Prunus domestica lineage, and does pollinate them.
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