Prunus, European Plum, Japanese Plum 'Luisa'

I have over 40 different bearing plums and the Luisa is among my top 5. It was planted in 2013. It first fruited in 2016 (light crop) a...Read Morend has given me heavy crops the past two years. It fruits about the same time as Victory and Mt Royal and just after Monsieur Hatif and Gras Romanesc. It doesn't ripen all at once so it is really good for the home garden since you can go out pick ripe plums over a long period of time. It is large, beautiful, sweet, and juicy and would be a real hit in roadside fruit stands. It is the largest plum I have and because of its color the birds don't bother it as badly as other plums that I have. It stands up well when canned and is attractive in the jar. I have also dried this plum - excellent. It should be pruned like you would prune a peach - it bears on last year's wood. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to readily available currently in the US (not sure why).

This Luisa plum tree which is at my boundary fence, gives a wonderful display of white blossoms in spring, and a great crop of big yellow...Read More and red unusually shaped plums which ripen in late January to early February. Apparently it is self-fertile, disease resistant and hardy.