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Czar Plum Trees

WhichBareroot Plants Guarantee 1 Year
  • Eating and Cooking.
  • Self Fertile.
  • Pollination Group C.
  • Crops August.
  • RHS Award of Garden Merit
  • Bareroot Delivery: Nov-March
Choose a plant formWhat to expect
All
Bareroot
Potted
Choose a size
  • Maiden: Unbranched tree, the most basic starting size, which you can train into the other forms (apart from mini patio trees; we only sell Little Miss Figgy), including wire-trained cordons, fans, and espaliers.
    • Some maidens are pre-cut to 80cm, ready to become a Bush, or 130cm, ready to become a Half-Standard.
  • Bush: Branched tree with a short trunk about 60cm tall.
    Will grow to about 3m. Ideal for any size garden.
  • Half-Standard: Branched tree with a trunk about 120cm tall.
    Will grow into a full sized, "normal" tree, about 4m. Ideal for orchards & large gardens, easy to mow underneath.
80cm Maiden
Bareroot
£23.99each
Qty
1-2
3 - 9
10 +
£
£ 23.99
£ 21.99
£ 19.99
Available to order
Despatched From December 2025
130cm Maiden
Bareroot
£24.99each
Qty
1-2
3 - 9
10 +
£
£ 24.99
£ 22.99
£ 19.99
Available to order
Despatched From December 2025
Bush
Bareroot
£34.99each
Qty
1-2
3 - 11
12 +
£
£ 34.99
£ 32.99
£ 29.99
Available to order
Despatched From November 2025
Half-Standard
Bareroot
£39.99each
Qty
1-2
3 - 9
10 +
£
£ 39.99
£ 36.99
£ 35.99
Available to order
Despatched From November 2025
Bush 7.5 Litre Pot
Potted
£39.99each
Qty
1-2
3 +
£
£ 39.99
£ 34.99

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Description

Prunus Czar

Czar Plums are large, dark purple/blue and with sharp, yellow flesh. They are 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 is less juicy than a pure eating plum so it is 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 is 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 is 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 are not 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.

What to expect

It's Spring Planting Season 2025

Pot grown plants on the nursery

Pot Grown & Plug Plants Delivered

From seedlings in jumbo plugs; Dahlia tubers; small P9 & 1 Litre plants; up to trees in big 15L pots
Expertly packed plants ready for delivery

Direct from the Nursery Value

We work with large batches of orders to save you money. Lead times for plants in stock are around 2 weeks
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No more broken plants in the post!

When your order is ready, it's expertly packed by Rodney and delivered by next day courier; if anything goes wrong, call Dan on 01963 359 444
Planting out potted plants in Spring

Spring is perfect planting time

Roots love the warm soil; the plant has time to settle in before mid-Summer heat
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