Plum trees

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• steephill Posts: 2,841

  April 2021

  It is possible but trees in containers need much more maintenance than soil planted trees such as daily watering during the summer. Choose a dwarf rootstock, use John Innes no.3 compost and repot each year in progressively larger pots until you get to about a 45cm diameter pot. After that just change as much of the compost as you can each year.
  

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• joepatr Posts: 23

  April 2021

  Last year I bought a Czar plum tree which grows in an east facing bed which in the summer months is shaded for much of the day. This gave us some crops last year and as of last week is already in full blossom. 
  
  I also have a Victoria plum in my front garden which is east facing and only gets sun up until late morning. I bought this from B&M 2 years ago as a bare root tree (the £5 ones you can get in late winter) and it has grown significantly, I expect to see blossom in a few weeks, but I've not gotten any fruit yet.
  
  With regard to container, it depends on the rootstock & you'd need to ask your garden centre to recommend ones that will grow in containers. It is however certainly possible to grow plums in part-shade; this is why I got Czar in my shade bed as this was recommended for this area. 

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• lizhindley2019 Posts: 15

  April 2021

  Thanks both!

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• februarysgirl Posts: 835

  April 2021

  @joepatr I also have a Czar and Victoria plum, the Czar for the exact same reason. They're on pixy rootstock and planted in my west facing open bottomed raised bed. Surprisingly, I got fruit on both of them last year which I didn't think was possible because they were only three years old. I liked the Czar plums but the Victorias were definitely superior in flavour. They've been in bloom since last week and the sub zero temperatures have got me stressed out but so far, they don't seem to have suffered any frost damage  🤞

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• lizhindley2019 Posts: 15

  April 2021

  Thank you! 

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