Chris and Steve's Weblog - City Chickens » plum Opal http://www.citychickens.co.uk The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:37:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Dessert Plum Opal – Prunus Domestica http://www.citychickens.co.uk/2009/02/06/dessert-plum-opal-prunus-domestica/ http://www.citychickens.co.uk/2009/02/06/dessert-plum-opal-prunus-domestica/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:11:21 +0000 Chris http://citychickens.co.uk/2009/02/06/dessert-plum-opal-prunus-domestica/ Opal plums are a sweet, bite-sized dessert plum with a great colour range. From sunshine yellow to deep purple, often on one fruit. They have pale yellow flesh with a Greengage flavour. This is a really early cropping plum tree and in a good year you can look forward to the first fruit being ready at the end of July. Opal is a self pollinator. 

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We bought this tree today as a companion for the Cox apple in the chicken run.

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