Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Brookgold Japanese Plum Bareroot

History: Brookgold was developed at the Crop Diversification Centre South in Brooks, Alberta and was named for the town and its golden colour. It was introduced in 1979.

Why We Grow It: Brookgold, like other fruit varieties developed in the prairies, is very cold hardy! Although there is sometimes a trade-off between cold hardiness and fruit quality, this variety still produces small yellow freestone plums that are very sweet, making them great for fresh eating and good for canning and preserving. 

$68.00

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Size

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, canning, preserving

Fruit Size: Small

Storage: Keeps about a week in the fridge

Harvest: August - Middle

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 2b

Soil Preferance: Sandy loam and loam, like plenty of organic material. Prefers average to moist conditions with well-drained soils, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring.

Flowering Time:

Pollination Requirements: Requires a pollinator of a different Japanese or hybrid plum variety that blooms around the same time. Nanking Cherries are supposedly also viable pollination partners for Brookgold.

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Vigorous with an upright growth habit, produces reliable crops of a good size

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

Un-grafted plants (berries, seedlings and vines) are graded by year. We follow industry standard. Species specific details will soon be updated to give you a clearer idea of size, as there can be a very large variation by species.

Yellow Plum Drawing to represent Brookgold Japanese Plum

Brookgold Japanese Plum Bareroot

$68.00

$68.00

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