Coe's Golden Drop gage trees

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Coe's Golden Drop is a traditional yellow English gage-like plum, with a very good rich sweet gage-like flavour, but some balancing sharpness. It is widely regarded as one of the best-flavoured of all English plums.

The attractive yellow free-stone plums are valuable for both dessert and culinary use. This versatility, combined with its excellent flavour and large size make it a particularly desirable plum tree for the keen fruit grower.

Coe's Golden Drop organic gage trees for sale

Next deliveries: December 2023 - February 2024.

• 1Maidentree on St. Julien A rootstock22.25€
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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• 2Maidentree on Myrobalan rootstock22.25€
  Very large tree (5m-6m+ after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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Growing and Training

Coe's Golden Drop is not as easy to grow as most plums. It is quite fussy about its situation - it does best in a sheltered location or trained on a south-facing wall.

The tree is generally healthy and can be quite vigorous on good soils. Cropping is very variable - it is best to assume it will be light, although if the tree likes where you have planted it then cropping can be very good.

This is essentially a variety for the plum enthusiast, who will, in a good year, be rewarded with perhaps the most refined of English plums.

History

Raised by Jervaise Coe, a market gardener from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, at the end of the 18th century. Mr Coe stated that it was seedling tree, most likely from an Old Green Gage stone pollinated by a White Magnum Bonum plum tree growing nearby.

Coe's Golden Drop characteristics

• Gardening skillExperienced
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Flowering group2
• Pollinating othersAverage
• Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesWarm climates
• Picking periodearly September
• Picking seasonVery late - Late October
• Season of use1 week - Keeps fresh in a fridge longer than most plums.
• CroppingLight
• Food usesEating freshCulinary
• Disease resistanceAverage
• Country of originUnited Kingdom
• Period of origin1800 - 1849
• Fruit colourYellow