The small round green fruits of Denniston's Superb look like typical green gages, and have the classic rich gage-like flavour. However this variety is now generally considered to be a true European plum, on the basis of its upright growth habit and generally reliable productivity.
These niceties need not bother the gardener - if you want a green gage without the fussy demands of some other green gages, Denniston's Superb is a good choice. By the standards of fruiting plums it also has particularly attractive blossom.
Rated by the Victorian writer Hogg as "a first-rate dessert plum".
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Denniston's Superb is self-fertile and does not need a pollination partner, although fruiting may be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby.
Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.
More advice about pollination.
Although the round green fruit resembles a green gage, Denniston's Superb grows more like a plum tree - upright, quite vigorously, and with good disease resistance. The long whippy branches soon adopt a weeping habit when loaded with fruit.
Denniston's Superb produces a lot of pollen over a long period in the earlier part of the plum blossom season, and is therefore an excellent pollinator for other early and mid-season flowering plum varieties.
Planting instructions.
Pruning instructions.
Raised by Mr Denniston of Albany, New York in the 19th century.
