Choose Your Perfect Orchard Ready Plum Tree
Superior Hybrid Plum | A northern star with serious toughness. Superior Hybrid Plum is a Japanese and American hybrid, bred for cold hardiness and vigor in chilly climates. Fruit is medium to large, heart shaped, with bright red skin and juicy yellow flesh that is wonderfully sweet and perfect for fresh eating, preserves, or desserts. It ripens in mid to late summer and rewards you with heavy crops when paired with a compatible pollinator such as another hybrid or Japanese plum.
Ripens mid-late summer • Needs pollinator • Large fruit production
Italian Plum | Rich, old world sweetness in your backyard. Bears elongated, deep purple fruit with golden yellow flesh that turns velvety sweet when fully ripe. It is a classic choice for drying into prunes, baking, and jam, yet delicious right off the tree. This variety is very cold hardy, late blooming, and self fertile, which makes it a reliable anchor tree in a home orchard across a wide range of climates.
Ripens late season • Very sweet, rich flavor • Best fresh eating
Stanley European Plum | If you picture a classic prune plum, you are probably picturing Stanley. This European plum bears abundant deep purple fruit with sweet yellow flesh, ideal for drying, canning, and fresh eating. Trees are vigorous with a graceful, spreading or vase form and a heavy annual crop when planted in full sun. Stanley is self pollinating and cold hardy in many regions, which makes it a dependable producer year after year.
Ripens late season • Self-fertile • Classic sweet plum
Santa Rosa Japanese Plum | A beloved classic and one of the most famous Japanese plums. Santa Rosa covers itself in fragrant white blossoms in early spring, followed by large purplish red fruit with amber flesh blushed red. The flavor is sweet with a lively tang, incredible right from the tree and excellent for preserves. It is often grown as a stand alone tree because it is self fruitful, although a pollination partner can boost yields even more.
Ripens mid-late season • Fragrant white blossoms • Sweetly tart
Satsuma Japanese Plum | Deep red and dramatic from skin to flesh, Satsuma Japanese Plum is all about color and sweetness. Fruit is medium to large with solid dark red flesh, firm yet juicy, and intensely sweet, perfect for fresh eating, cooking, canning, and preserves. Trees are productive and hardy, and Satsuma pairs especially well with companions like Toka, Pipestone, or Superior for pollination and heavier crops.
Ripens mid-late season • Very rich sweet flavor • Perfect for fresh eating
Toka Japanese Plum | Meet the famous Toka, sometimes called the "Bubblegum Plum" for its uniquely candy like aroma and flavor. This Japanese and American hybrid bears medium sized reddish bronze fruit with aromatic yellow flesh that is incredibly sweet. Toka is extremely cold hardy, widely adapted, and prized as an outstanding pollinator for many other Japanese and hybrid plums, while also producing plenty of delicious fruit on its own.
Ripens mid-late season • self-fertile • Candy like aroma
Choose Your Perfect Orchard Ready Plum Tree
Superior Hybrid Plum | A northern star with serious toughness. Superior Hybrid Plum is a Japanese and American hybrid, bred for cold hardiness and vigor in chilly climates. Fruit is medium to large, heart shaped, with bright red skin and juicy yellow flesh that is wonderfully sweet and perfect for fresh eating, preserves, or desserts. It ripens in mid to late summer and rewards you with heavy crops when paired with a compatible pollinator such as another hybrid or Japanese plum.
Ripens mid-late summer • Needs pollinator • Large fruit production
Italian Plum | Rich, old world sweetness in your backyard. Bears elongated, deep purple fruit with golden yellow flesh that turns velvety sweet when fully ripe. It is a classic choice for drying into prunes, baking, and jam, yet delicious right off the tree. This variety is very cold hardy, late blooming, and self fertile, which makes it a reliable anchor tree in a home orchard across a wide range of climates.
Ripens late season • Very sweet, rich flavor • Best fresh eating
Stanley European Plum | If you picture a classic prune plum, you are probably picturing Stanley. This European plum bears abundant deep purple fruit with sweet yellow flesh, ideal for drying, canning, and fresh eating. Trees are vigorous with a graceful, spreading or vase form and a heavy annual crop when planted in full sun. Stanley is self pollinating and cold hardy in many regions, which makes it a dependable producer year after year.
Ripens late season • Self-fertile • Classic sweet plum
Santa Rosa Japanese Plum | A beloved classic and one of the most famous Japanese plums. Santa Rosa covers itself in fragrant white blossoms in early spring, followed by large purplish red fruit with amber flesh blushed red. The flavor is sweet with a lively tang, incredible right from the tree and excellent for preserves. It is often grown as a stand alone tree because it is self fruitful, although a pollination partner can boost yields even more.
Ripens mid-late season • Fragrant white blossoms • Sweetly tart
Satsuma Japanese Plum | Deep red and dramatic from skin to flesh, Satsuma Japanese Plum is all about color and sweetness. Fruit is medium to large with solid dark red flesh, firm yet juicy, and intensely sweet, perfect for fresh eating, cooking, canning, and preserves. Trees are productive and hardy, and Satsuma pairs especially well with companions like Toka, Pipestone, or Superior for pollination and heavier crops.
Ripens mid-late season • Very rich sweet flavor • Perfect for fresh eating
Toka Japanese Plum | Meet the famous Toka, sometimes called the "Bubblegum Plum" for its uniquely candy like aroma and flavor. This Japanese and American hybrid bears medium sized reddish bronze fruit with aromatic yellow flesh that is incredibly sweet. Toka is extremely cold hardy, widely adapted, and prized as an outstanding pollinator for many other Japanese and hybrid plums, while also producing plenty of delicious fruit on its own.
Ripens mid-late season • self-fertile • Candy like aroma
Why plant Orchard Ready - Plum Trees?
Our Orchard Ready Trees are grown to an advanced size and strength, then professionally pruned and prepared so they establish quickly once planted. They are not tiny starter sticks. They arrive as real presence in the landscape, already well on their way.
That head start means you see structure, blossoms, and fruit sooner, with a tree that looks like it belongs from the very first season.
Superior Hybrid Plum: Hardiness Zone: 4–8
Italian Plum: Hardiness Zone: 4–9
Stanley European Plum: Hardiness Zone: 5–8
Santa Rosa Japanese Plum: Hardiness Zone: 5–9
Satsuma Japanese Plum: Hardiness Zone: 5–9
Toka Japanese Plum: Hardiness Zone: 3–8
How to use Orchard Ready - Plum Trees in the landscape?
Plant an Orchard Ready Plum as a focal point near a patio, play space, or garden path where you can enjoy the spring flowers and watch the fruit color up in summer. Their medium size fits beautifully into most home landscapes, whether as a single specimen or in a small home orchard of mixed plums, apples, pears, and cherries.
Combine a fragrant, showy variety like Santa Rosa with a cold hardy workhorse like Superior or Toka to stretch your harvest season and give your landscape both beauty and purpose. These are trees that feed the eyes, the pollinators, and the people at your table.
