Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Victoria is a classic English plum and a particularly reliable choice for family gardens. Self-fertile and highly productive, it carries large oval pinkish-yellow plums with sweet, juicy golden flesh, suitable for eating and cooking. Its main weakness is excessive generosity: thinning is often needed to improve fruit size and prevent heavily laden branches from breaking under the crop.

Victoria

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

Victoria is the definitive English plum, attractive fruit, good for eating, outstanding flavour for cooking.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Prunus rootstock options

Myrobolan - mature height : 4 à 6m.

St-Julien A, - mature height : 3m.

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SKU: 4388 Category: Plum trees

Description

Victoria is by far the most popular plum variety in the UK, dating from the Victorian era, and well-known for heavy crops of very pretty plum-coloured fruit. In fact it is one of the heaviest-cropping and most-productive of all European plum varieties.

Victoria really excels as a culinary plum. It cooks to a distinctive pink/orange puree which makes a very good jam and a good-flavoured filling for traditional English plum pies and plum crumbles. The stone is semi-clinging, and fairly easy to remove from the flesh. The flavour has a good sweet/sharp balance, and there is often a note of almond in the background which is a characteristic of Victoria.

If you want to grow a traditional English plum then this is certainly the one to choose.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Sussex, England, introduced around 1840.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Queen Victoria, Reine Victoria

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Low to medium vigour, very productive, easy garden habit

Quince compatibility

Queen Victoria, Reine Victoria

Pollination and fertility

Alleles

Low to medium vigour, very productive, easy garden habit

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 3 - mid season.

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Additional variety information for Victoria is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.