Plums

[title]Opal[/title]

The fruit is medium-sized, coloured dusky red with a heavy bloom, becoming blue when overripe.  The fruit is at its best just before the colour changes to blue.  The plums ripen over a period of about 1-2 weeks. The flesh is straw-yellow and fairly juicy.  Opal is a free-stone plum – the stone falls away easily from the flesh and can have a wonderful aroma and excellent flavour.

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[title]Victoria[/title]

The skins will start to become a darker red rather than the more usual orange flushed colour when fully ripened: this gives it its best flavour- most popular English variety

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[title]Marjorie’s Seedling[/title]

The fruit is large, plum-shaped, and purple, becoming blue-black when fully ripe, with a heavy bloom and is overall very attractive. The flesh is greenish-yellow, juicy, quite coarse, and noticeably veined. The stone is clinging.

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[title] Reeve’s Seedling[/title]

A very large, round plum, of excellent, rich, juicy flavour, similar if not richer than Victoria. It has a red to rose coloured skin over green/yellow

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