All plum trees require pollination to produce fruit. Some plum varieties are self-fertile, such as 'Violette' and 'Jubilee', meaning that the tree can produce fruit on its own without needing the ...

This rare specimen offers green-thumbed shoppers the chance to grow two varieties of plums on the same tree, as it comes from ...

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Damson plums are self-fertile, meaning each tree can pollinate its own flowers to produce fruit, although some cultivars may produce better if another European plum with the same flowering time is ...

Other Mirabelles include 'Plum de Metz', 'Golden Sphere' and 'Ruby'. Don't forget to prune plum trees in their growing season, before harvesting the fruit of Mirabelles from late July.

For the past two years, my plum tree has produced plenty of fruit, but they all drop off while still very small. What am I doing wrong? – P.L. Samuels, Norfolk Do we have a plum tree? We thou… ...

Put the trees in the ground in January and you will have blossoms by March. Some trees, such as ‘Anna’ apples, may even fruit the first season.

Q. My flowering plum has made fruit this year. I have been here five years and this tree never made fruit before. I thought it was for flowering only and would not make fruit.

Q. Last year, my plum tree didn’t have any fruit at all. This spring, it has so many plums that I’m afraid the branches may break! Why? This phenomenon is called “alternate year bearing ...

The decision was unanimous: The plum tree needed a name. “Bob Pastolio!” yelled Maria Flor, a sixth-grader from West Hollywood. “Yeah,” said Max Oppenheimer, 12, of Los Feliz. “For short ...