I have both red and yellow cherry plums growing in my back yard. The the yellow plums were here when I moved in. The red plum is one that I grew from the seed of a wild plum that I really liked the taste of. The yellow plums grow 20 ft tall, but the red is smaller, about 12 feet with dark red leaves and pink flowers.
Happy to have found your channel looking for more information on these trees. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Take care and have a blessed day. 🍀 Blessings, Teresa
I just discovered this fruit on a tree that sprung up on its own in my yard in Rescue, California (Northern California) Your video was the most informative and I know I can eat them or make jam! Thank you!
I'm in Northern California, little town called Petaluma. I just discovered this type of fruit and there are several trees in the hiking hills by our house. Some are getting very sweet now. I love eating handfuls each time I do the loop around the area.
In San Francisco, a cherry plum grew in my yard. I didn't plant it. I don't know how the seed got there. Very sweet fruit. But you have to eat about 20 of them.
I live in London and one of these trees grew out of nowhere in our garden! One day an old Bulgarian lady came and knocked on our door to ask if she could pick some 😮 so we helped her fill a whole bag full of them!
Very interesting information you have provided in this video, thank you! I came to this video as a reference from a friend that has provided me with wood from Cherry Plum trees. I use it in woodturning and it is a very beautiful, rewarding wood to turn. The bark on the tree makes the beautiful wood stand out even more in my natural edge bowls. So, we can get shade, fruit and even a bowl to put the fruit in, all from the same tree! Phil
That's so interesting to hear, Phil! Thanks for sharing about your experience with the cherry plum wood! I'm sure the bowls you make must be beautiful :)
Phil, holler at us if you need any more. We just had a 100 year old rootstock tree get windthrown. These trees have gorgeous wood. Would love to see some of your work as well - will reach out directly.
Bottletree Farm It’s the landscape of my childhood- I started to truly appreciate it once I moved to the Netherlands where there’s very little nature;)
In America I think people call them wild plums. They're hard to find where I am so I planted the tree in my backyard. I like the sour variety for making sauces and drying. Pickling/lacto fermenting them is good too.
Its done the same way as you would do cucumbers. You just have to pick the plums when they're firm or slightly unripe. Green plums work best.You can also do a canning method by using hot water. Fill jars with plum, salt (1tbs salt for 1 kilo jar), spices of you choice( bay leaves, garlic, peppercorns, mint, dill) and then pour hot water in the jar and tightly close the lid. Leave it in a cool place for 7-10 and its ready to eat. Recently I saw some people make a Japanese style umeboshi using wild plums and it looked really interesting. I haven't tried it yet but want to try making it one of these days. I'll leave a link if you want to check it out. www.rootedfood.com/recipes/2015/8/24/umeboshi-with-california-wild-plums
Lots of cherry plums in the hedgerow here in Suffolk in the UK. They make a good wine (as do most prunus in my experience) but they also make an excellent liqueur. Soak in spirit with a little sugar and honey, avoid making it too sweet, you can always sweeten the solution more later (if you need to) but not the reverse! Pick in late summer and drink at Christmas, nature’s free gift!
We added one in the backyard here in Alabama, USA. I'm looking forward to making some Plum Brandy for gifts to friends and my wife is looking forward to making some jam spread for toast. Thank you for video.
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Aaron! We have a few plants in our edible hedge at home and they are full of flower buds so I have high hopes for the coming season!
I have a reddish/purple cherry plum growing in my backyard. It has the absolute best plum flavor I've ever found. The tree is getting too big so I'd like to cut it back as I can't use even a fraction of the fruit it produces. Luckily the deer like them too and eat everything that lands on the ground and as high as they can reach.
I just found a baby tree on our property today, the birds must have planted it because we didn’t. First thing I did was take propagation clippings so I can plant it where I want them. Feel like I just won the lottery. Mother Natures birds bring us gifts daily we just have to tend the right plants.
I don't think a true cherry plum can take the disease pressure in my area of the USA (SE Georgia), but I have a Mariana plums which is a hybrid between P. caricifera and P. munsonia (Munson plum) which has delicious fruit. In fact it's makes the best tasting plums that I have ever eaten. I have a young Sprite plum which is another cherryplum hybrid which will bloom for the first time this year, and another one that I just planted called Auburn University Cherry. We shall see how they both do. Nice video.
About 500 metres from my home is a house whose hedge is cherry plum heaven. It's obviously been put in as a good hedging plant and I don't know if the owner knows. But on my way to work last year, I was picking enough every day to give me a good snack. There were yellow and pinky/red ones and some were nicer than others. I only spotted them because the ripe ones were making a nasty mess on the pavement 😉
Sandy Ralston we still have those her in Randolph Co, AL. Every Fall I intend on moving some into my food forest while they are dormant but I always forget :-(
I am not sure if they grow wild here in Canada, but it's very possible. However, there are cultivars available here for home gardeners. I grow three varieties. Manor, Convoy, and Kapa. They are a great snack fruit!
Thanks for sharing that! Very interesting to hear about the varieties - not many named varieties are actually available here, though I'd like to try the red-leaved 'Trailblazer' :)
I don't remember if I watched this video before and reacted. Anyway: there are a few of those trees, with yellow fruits (quite sour) growing along the back alley behind the street where I live. I pick them and make jam.
I am living in Georgia and bought the 1st time in my live cherry plums even I didn't know about their existence. Those I bought are purple of color and more sour then lemon. I try to eat them but to be honest this is the first and last time I bought them because they are much to sour.
Hoi vera, in het boek 'zoet,zuur en zout' van Diana Henry vond ik het recept voor Georgische pruimensaus. De ingedienten: 500 gram pruimen, 25 gram of meer basterdsuiker, flinke snuf zout, 50 ml rode wijnazijn, 3 teentjes knoflook, 2tl pikante paprikapoeder, sap van halve citrien, 2 eetlepels gehakte munt, 3 eetl gehakte koriander of peterselie. Allles koken tot het een mooie saus is. Minus citroen en verse kruiden. Die later toevoegen. Eet smakelijk.
Would you translate this please? I'm guessing bits knoflook is that garlic? Wijnazijn is that wine or wine vinegar? I made a plum ketchup several years ago which sounds very similar. Delicious but deadly to make without goggles 😆had every door and window open in the house!
`indeed: knoflook is garlic, wijnazijn is winevinegar, basterdsuiker can be replaced by any kind of sugar, munt is mint, koriander is coriander, peterselie is parsley, citroen equivalent to lemon, you can replace the pikante paprikapoeder by any kind of pepper. Boil all the ingredients together without the lemon and the herbs. You add those afterwards
In Romania we have a terrible year, some trees are not fruiting at all due to frost that affected all the flowers in springtime. In my garden, no peaches, no apricot, no plums, no quince, no almonds, no cherries. Only few walnuts, purple cherry plums and sour cherry, apples.
William Jones We made a batch of cherry plum ketchup-like sauce yesterday and love it! I’ll try to make some plum-apple chutney too (there’s a lot of apples too in my parents’ garden;))
They are great at apricot size. Are yours only half-dollar size cuz my tree was like that up until the year before it got black knot fungus that quickly killed the adult tree. Terrible timing but they aren't native anyway so nature had a solution.
@@CJM-rg5rt yes, half-dollar size. Red and yellow. And not too many on the tree. The tree is right next to a stump that was a purple leaf plum tree that succumbed to something.
@@delart2 I hope they grow to good eating size but that fungus getting established is death sentence (see pictures). The purple one probably got a cut at some point and just like a animal became infected.
We are so glad to find other fruit growing enthusiasts who have fallen in love with these Prunus cerisefera. We have an orchard full of them where their cultivars were overtaken by the P. cerisefera rootstock. I'm so glad you're taking on some of these more unique recipes for them. We are working on a pickled charcuterie plum recipe with unripe red cherry plums, using our yellow cherry plums in a umeboshi-like recipe. Would love to hear your results on the sour/spicy sauce from Georgia. Here's another I found here on UA-cam for pickled cherry plums using a Cambodian recipe. ua-cam.com/video/g6zg1Mmg6bU/v-deo.html
Pickling sounds interesting! I am a pickling enthousiast and last fall I went a little overboard pickling every veg we had in the garden :) The Georgian recipe: I liked it, it is a nice condiment, but I thought the addition of mint was a little overpowering and would probably leave that out next time
Not quite, but close to normal plums. As I say in the video we found one growing wild that actually tasted very similar to apricots - I'm thinking whether I could take a cutting :)
I found them by accident near a road in Germany. Ever since that I tried to grow a cherry plum tree, but to no avail. I have not yet been able to grow one which makes me so sad, as it is said to be so easy to grow them ... 😔😥
Hi Tina, This video may be helpful to you... I have one of these trees at the end of my garden, and it has a few fruits on; it would have had more if I prune it at the right time. It seems you might need to break the kernel in order for the seed in the middle to become exposed to water and to germinate. It's an experiment, I will be careful not to flood with water (holes in bottom of tub for excess to drain). Good Luck! ua-cam.com/video/6meOZWb3a0o/v-deo.html
that image is incredible. lady with a basket, on a road leading to the forest.... fairy tale!
I have both red and yellow cherry plums growing in my back yard. The the yellow plums were here when I moved in. The red plum is one that I grew from the seed of a wild plum that I really liked the taste of. The yellow plums grow 20 ft tall, but the red is smaller, about 12 feet with dark red leaves and pink flowers.
Happy to have found your channel looking for more information on these trees. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Take care and have a blessed day. 🍀
Blessings,
Teresa
I just discovered this fruit on a tree that sprung up on its own in my yard in Rescue, California (Northern California) Your video was the most informative and I know I can eat them or make jam! Thank you!
I'm in Northern California, little town called Petaluma. I just discovered this type of fruit and there are several trees in the hiking hills by our house. Some are getting very sweet now. I love eating handfuls each time I do the loop around the area.
I've seen these around too. They're pretty good
In San Francisco, a cherry plum grew in my yard. I didn't plant it. I don't know how the seed got there. Very sweet fruit. But you have to eat about 20 of them.
I live in London and one of these trees grew out of nowhere in our garden! One day an old Bulgarian lady came and knocked on our door to ask if she could pick some 😮 so we helped her fill a whole bag full of them!
How awesome that it appeared in your garden spontaneously! It is such a beautiful tree when flowering too :)
Very interesting information you have provided in this video, thank you! I came to this video as a reference from a friend that has provided me with wood from Cherry Plum trees. I use it in woodturning and it is a very beautiful, rewarding wood to turn. The bark on the tree makes the beautiful wood stand out even more in my natural edge bowls. So, we can get shade, fruit and even a bowl to put the fruit in, all from the same tree!
Phil
That's so interesting to hear, Phil! Thanks for sharing about your experience with the cherry plum wood! I'm sure the bowls you make must be beautiful :)
Phil, holler at us if you need any more. We just had a 100 year old rootstock tree get windthrown. These trees have gorgeous wood. Would love to see some of your work as well - will reach out directly.
I loved seeing the countryside!!
Bottletree Farm It’s the landscape of my childhood- I started to truly appreciate it once I moved to the Netherlands where there’s very little nature;)
In America I think people call them wild plums. They're hard to find where I am so I planted the tree in my backyard. I like the sour variety for making sauces and drying. Pickling/lacto fermenting them is good too.
Aika M Thanks for sharing! I’ve only ever fermented vegetables- how do you ferment the plums?
Its done the same way as you would do cucumbers. You just have to pick the plums when they're firm or slightly unripe. Green plums work best.You can also do a canning method by using hot water. Fill jars with plum, salt (1tbs salt for 1 kilo jar), spices of you choice( bay leaves, garlic, peppercorns, mint, dill) and then pour hot water in the jar and tightly close the lid. Leave it in a cool place for 7-10 and its ready to eat. Recently I saw some people make a Japanese style umeboshi using wild plums and it looked really interesting. I haven't tried it yet but want to try making it one of these days. I'll leave a link if you want to check it out. www.rootedfood.com/recipes/2015/8/24/umeboshi-with-california-wild-plums
Lots of cherry plums in the hedgerow here in Suffolk in the UK. They make a good wine (as do most prunus in my experience) but they also make an excellent liqueur. Soak in spirit with a little sugar and honey, avoid making it too sweet, you can always sweeten the solution more later (if you need to) but not the reverse! Pick in late summer and drink at Christmas, nature’s free gift!
Sounds delicious, I will keep it in mind!
I just discovered 5-6 trees in my neighborhood in Aiken, SC in the USA. Tried the fruit & they are delicious. They’re yellow to orange in color.
We added one in the backyard here in Alabama, USA. I'm looking forward to making some Plum Brandy for gifts to friends and my wife is looking forward to making some jam spread for toast. Thank you for video.
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Aaron! We have a few plants in our edible hedge at home and they are full of flower buds so I have high hopes for the coming season!
Also have cherry plums here in Pyrenees SW France . All types ❤
I have a reddish/purple cherry plum growing in my backyard. It has the absolute best plum flavor I've ever found. The tree is getting too big so I'd like to cut it back as I can't use even a fraction of the fruit it produces. Luckily the deer like them too and eat everything that lands on the ground and as high as they can reach.
I just found a baby tree on our property today, the birds must have planted it because we didn’t. First thing I did was take propagation clippings so I can plant it where I want them. Feel like I just won the lottery. Mother Natures birds bring us gifts daily we just have to tend the right plants.
I don't think a true cherry plum can take the disease pressure in my area of the USA (SE Georgia), but I have a Mariana plums which is a hybrid between P. caricifera and P. munsonia (Munson plum) which has delicious fruit. In fact it's makes the best tasting plums that I have ever eaten. I have a young Sprite plum which is another cherryplum hybrid which will bloom for the first time this year, and another one that I just planted called Auburn University Cherry. We shall see how they both do. Nice video.
About 500 metres from my home is a house whose hedge is cherry plum heaven. It's obviously been put in as a good hedging plant and I don't know if the owner knows. But on my way to work last year, I was picking enough every day to give me a good snack. There were yellow and pinky/red ones and some were nicer than others. I only spotted them because the ripe ones were making a nasty mess on the pavement 😉
Theresa Munson That’s lovely, Theresa! So often people ignore wild fruits :)
Beautiful place!
Sounds like the wild plums we had when I was growing up in Georgia, USA. They were lite red color when ripe. I wish I could find a tree now.
Sandy Ralston They could very well be the same thing! There are so many here this year, I wish I could send you some:)
Sandy Ralston we still have those her in Randolph Co, AL. Every Fall I intend on moving some into my food forest while they are dormant but I always forget :-(
www.willisorchards.com/product/american-plum-seedling#.W3ucqOhKiUk
Jere Woolsey thanks! The picture does not look the same but i will try it. Thanks again!
Bottletree Farm would you pm me when you have time?
I am not sure if they grow wild here in Canada, but it's very possible. However, there are cultivars available here for home gardeners. I grow three varieties. Manor, Convoy, and Kapa. They are a great snack fruit!
Thanks for sharing that! Very interesting to hear about the varieties - not many named varieties are actually available here, though I'd like to try the red-leaved 'Trailblazer' :)
I don't remember if I watched this video before and reacted. Anyway: there are a few of those trees, with yellow fruits (quite sour) growing along the back alley behind the street where I live. I pick them and make jam.
Good video..waiting for more plants videos..
I am living in Georgia and bought the 1st time in my live cherry plums even I didn't know about their existence. Those I bought are purple of color and more sour then lemon. I try to eat them but to be honest this is the first and last time I bought them because they are much to sour.
Great information
These grow everywhere in Romania. People make țuică (brandy) from them.
We just built a house in Va., USA. My plant app says we have two cherry plums. The app is wrong quite a bit so was wondering if you could identify it?
Hoi vera, in het boek 'zoet,zuur en zout' van Diana Henry vond ik het recept voor Georgische pruimensaus. De ingedienten: 500 gram pruimen, 25 gram of meer basterdsuiker, flinke snuf zout, 50 ml rode wijnazijn, 3 teentjes knoflook, 2tl pikante paprikapoeder, sap van halve citrien, 2 eetlepels gehakte munt, 3 eetl gehakte koriander of peterselie. Allles koken tot het een mooie saus is. Minus citroen en verse kruiden. Die later toevoegen. Eet smakelijk.
dineke barendrecht Dank je wel, Dineke! Super, ga ik proberen!
Would you translate this please? I'm guessing bits knoflook is that garlic? Wijnazijn is that wine or wine vinegar? I made a plum ketchup several years ago which sounds very similar. Delicious but deadly to make without goggles 😆had every door and window open in the house!
`indeed: knoflook is garlic, wijnazijn is winevinegar, basterdsuiker can be replaced by any kind of sugar, munt is mint, koriander is coriander, peterselie is parsley, citroen equivalent to lemon, you can replace the pikante paprikapoeder by any kind of pepper. Boil all the ingredients together without the lemon and the herbs. You add those afterwards
dineke barendrecht thank you!
I made the sauce tonight and we like it a lot - will try to make one more batch later this week. Thank you, Dineke!!
My green reineclaudes are ripe too.
Kroeger Markus Lovely! We planted a Reine claude verte in our Dutch garden 2y ago and I can’t wait for the first fruit!
They are extremely sweet and aromatic.
In Romania we have a terrible year, some trees are not fruiting at all due to frost that affected all the flowers in springtime. In my garden, no peaches, no apricot, no plums, no quince, no almonds, no cherries. Only few walnuts, purple cherry plums and sour cherry, apples.
Andreea Lavinia Onuta Oh no, that’s so sad! Here it’s the exact opposite- too much fruit to eat or process!
Plum ketchup is delicious and chutneys would be good too.
William Jones We made a batch of cherry plum ketchup-like sauce yesterday and love it! I’ll try to make some plum-apple chutney too (there’s a lot of apples too in my parents’ garden;))
I just tried a red one from a tree in my yard. It was tart, but enjoyable. I’m about 160km north of New York City.
They are great at apricot size. Are yours only half-dollar size cuz my tree was like that up until the year before it got black knot fungus that quickly killed the adult tree. Terrible timing but they aren't native anyway so nature had a solution.
@@CJM-rg5rt yes, half-dollar size. Red and yellow. And not too many on the tree. The tree is right next to a stump that was a purple leaf plum tree that succumbed to something.
@@delart2 I hope they grow to good eating size but that fungus getting established is death sentence (see pictures). The purple one probably got a cut at some point and just like a animal became infected.
I love this video. A bit cultural as in western worlds, its not common to just be walking around trying fruit. Lol.
I liked your video. I only wish that you had provided some close-ups of the fruit and the leaves.
We are so glad to find other fruit growing enthusiasts who have fallen in love with these Prunus cerisefera. We have an orchard full of them where their cultivars were overtaken by the P. cerisefera rootstock. I'm so glad you're taking on some of these more unique recipes for them. We are working on a pickled charcuterie plum recipe with unripe red cherry plums, using our yellow cherry plums in a umeboshi-like recipe. Would love to hear your results on the sour/spicy sauce from Georgia. Here's another I found here on UA-cam for pickled cherry plums using a Cambodian recipe. ua-cam.com/video/g6zg1Mmg6bU/v-deo.html
Pickling sounds interesting! I am a pickling enthousiast and last fall I went a little overboard pickling every veg we had in the garden :) The Georgian recipe: I liked it, it is a nice condiment, but I thought the addition of mint was a little overpowering and would probably leave that out next time
Does it taste like a standard prune?
Not quite, but close to normal plums. As I say in the video we found one growing wild that actually tasted very similar to apricots - I'm thinking whether I could take a cutting :)
I have a hybrid Plum tree for almost 7 years but never get chance to eat one. Why I am not having plum on my tree?
Lack of a pollinator tree would be a good guess.
Try planting a Stanley plum in that area or something
I found them by accident near a road in Germany. Ever since that I tried to grow a cherry plum tree, but to no avail. I have not yet been able to grow one which makes me so sad, as it is said to be so easy to grow them ... 😔😥
Hi Tina, This video may be helpful to you... I have one of these trees at the end of my garden, and it has a few fruits on; it would have had more if I prune it at the right time. It seems you might need to break the kernel in order for the seed in the middle to become exposed to water and to germinate. It's an experiment, I will be careful not to flood with water (holes in bottom of tub for excess to drain). Good Luck! ua-cam.com/video/6meOZWb3a0o/v-deo.html
You need to describe the fruit stone