Visit your local store for the widest range of products. Plums are one of the best stonefruit types to grow in a home garden, as prolific crops of very good quality fruit can be produced with very little work. Anyone can trim plums, but timing is important, as is consistency.
Prunus domestica 'Hawera'
New stock expected end of july, 2022.
Grafted dwarf forms, 2.5m x 2.5m.
Originates from a seedling found in hawera, new zealand. What you need to know about plums. Highly recommended home garden variety. Only a few diseases affect plum trees, so a very basic organic spray programme will keep the tree healthy and productive.
Plant type edibles, fruit trees, trees.
Red fruit with very firm dark; The damson plum is also in this group, but is a seperate species, prunus institia. Red skin, red flesh merging into pink close to the stone. Large dark red fruit with very firm dark red flesh.
White blossoms adorn the tree in spring and give rise to the plentiful fruit.
Heavy cropper, freestone, ripens feb. Therefore, learning how and when to prune a plum tree is imperative. Proving to be one of the best plums for home gardens. Highly recommended new zealand selection of plum with large, very dark red skin and fleshed fruit.
Plum trees generally produce fruit 3 to 6 years after planting (2 to 5 years for dwarf plum varieties).
Our physical store at 18 devon road, whanganui will still be. We are currently working on this variety sheet and thank you for your patience. Self fertile, but ‘santa rosa’ can assist in pollination. It produces white flowers and dark red fruit with amber flesh.
Originated from a chance seedling found on the roadside near, you guessed it, hawera.
Originated from a chance seedling found on the roadside near hawera. Plum trees are a lovely addition to any landscape, but without proper trimming and training, they can become a burden rather than an asset. All orders placed before 8th december will be shipped as usual. A high quality dessert variety that ripens in or around january.
Try adding into a mixed bed for height and spring colour.
The rootstocks are a specially selected form of plum from the same family (prunus). A chance seedling from the roadside in hawera. One of the best deep red plums. A plum/apricot cross with an apricot colour.
Plant uses border, specimen trees, attract beneficial insects.
Daffodil hawera is smaller than the well known daffodils. With its little, starry blooms it is an attention magnet in front of the perennial border. Possibly a 'sultan' or 'satsuma' seedling. A lovely addition to small home gardens and orchards alike.
Produces large, firm fleshed fruit with dark red skin and flesh.
“hawera” is a variety of plum that produces large and firm, dark red fruit in summer. A large, very dark red skin and flesh 'blood plum', found as a chance seedling by the roadside in hawera, new zealand. Make sure you only prune in summer months to prevent fungal disease. The flesh is also dark red and both sweet and tasty.
Vigorous rootstock growing to 6 meters.
Apple | apricot | cherry | nectarine | peach | plum | pear. Large dark red fruit with very firm dark red flesh. Approx size in 10 years: Hawera is a self fertile variety.
Accepting of a wide variety of soils, but.
Large dark red fruit with very firm dark red flesh. Freestone, sweet, juicy, and very firm. The most common plum rootstocks are as follows: Most plums require a pollinator in order to fruit, though plum hawera which was bred in taranaki to handle our conditions is self fertile meaning you only need the one tree.
The freestone fruit are sweet, juicy and very firm fleshed.
Plant in a sunny, sheltered position. Tolerates clay and heavy soil. A new zealand bred seedling of ‘black doris’. Although plum tree pruning is not difficult, it’s important.
Plum, chinese or japanese plum (prunus salicina), european plum (prunus domestica).
