Plum Fruit

Plum Fruits

Great for Fruit Beginners Methley Plum Tree!

• Gorgeous Reddish-Purple Fruit
• Soft, Sweet, Mild & Juicy Fruit
• Self-Pollinating
• Drifts of White Spring Blooms
• Fragrant & Call Pollinators
• Mid-Season Harvest
• Heavy Bearing & Strong Limbs
• Highly Adaptable
• Heat & Disease Resistant
• Bruce Plum Tree Pollination Partner
• Eating Fresh, Pies, & Preserves
• Low 150-250 Chill Hours

The Methley Plum (Prunus salicina 'Methley') is a fast-growing tree that produces an abundant harvest of sweet, juicy fruit each year! Plant one in full sun where its showy, spring display and abundant harvest won't be overlooked. Methley Plum brightens up your spring with a flurry of stunning, snowy white blooms. Sweetly-scented, and delicate as a feather, the fragrant blossoms will drift through your yard on the gentlest of spring breezes. By mid-season, Methley will be weighed down with medium-large fruit. The beauty of the deep reddish-purple skin is only surpassed by the gorgeous deep crimson color of the flesh. Methley is soft, sweet and very juicy. Excellent for fresh eating, or jelly, jam and other preserves! It is known as a heavy producer, its yearly crop is so abundant that you will need to harvest it multiple times! One of the best features of Methley is that, even though often laden down with fruit, it has very strong limbs. No worry about propping it up or thinning it out as you do with some other high-producing trees. If you're looking for a Plum fruit plants that even a beginning gardener can be successful with, then Methley is for you!

How to Use Methley Plum Tree In The Landscape

An incredible ornamental tree, Methley takes the place of that boring flowering tree that is done for the year after its spring bloom. Great shaped trees, plus delicious fruit, this tree outperforms most other trees in the landscape. The mature size is fantastic for the average-sized to larger orchard or yard, providing great shade throughout the landscape! Or, you can easily maintain this tree as a much smaller, easy to harvest, size for adding to existing orchards or landscape designs. A Japanese Plum tree, this is a lovely accent for front yard garden design, this dual-purpose ornamental tree makes it easy to make your landscape plants fill your pantry as well! Set a chair beneath the early spring blooms to watch the bees go about their business, or under the mid-season harvest and watch as your fruit ripens! Be sure to situate this tree outside your favorite window so you’ll always have a chance to witness its beauty throughout the seasons. What other tree produces heavy annual crops of juicy sweet red-purple fruit while looking good doing it?