Prunus maritima

Nantucket, MA(Zone 7a)

We should get a good crop of beach plums for jelly this year as the temperature has been warm enough for the bees to pollinate them this year. DH put up 70 plus jars last year from this tree and a couple of small wild ones on the property, but zero in 2005 as we had a nor'easter the week that they bloomed and we had no bees. We planted this one in the 80's. I have 4 more coming along from chance seedlings that may be big enough to fruit this year. Plus we have some native ones on the property. I would love to find what we we call a sugar plum, which is a beach plum that produces a yellow fruit. I have found a few in the moors growing wild among the regular Prunus maritima, but never one for sale. Patti

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I've never tried any beach plum jelly. Sounds really great.

> I have found a few in the moors growing wild among the regular Prunus maritima

If you can contact someone local from NAFEX or CRFG , maybe you can learn to graft and be able to graft bits of the wild one onto your home stock.

Nantucket, MA(Zone 7a)

I will look into the grafting idea, now if I can only find one again. They make an amazing color of jelly, the taste is pretty much the same. It is like a soft peach color instead of the dark reddish plum color. Thanks for the idea. Patti

Bluffton, SC(Zone 9a)

Unleash the hounds.

Sorry haven't heard the word moors in a long time.

Nantucket, MA(Zone 7a)

Too funny, I live on the edge of Nantucket's Middle Moors near the white patch marked Nantucket Land Bank with a 'P' across from a little pond. All the tan is conservation. I had not thought about Dartmoor in a long time. I will probably hear howling tonight.
http://www.nantucketconservation.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/plamendocs/images/24_p_NCFMiddleMoorsMap.pdf

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