Stone fruit get their name from the pit or stone in the centre of the fleshy outer area. They include plums, damsons, gages, bullaces. peaches, nectarines and Cherries. Today, bush varieties are available to grow on a variety of rootstocks enabling them to be grown in containers or as large trees, they can also be trained as cordons.
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Collage of stone fruit
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Assorted Apples, pears. redcurrants, peaches, plums, strawberries and blackberries peach pear
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Stone fruit on white background from top to bottom. 1. Plum 'Reeves', 2. Plum 'Victoria', 3. Gage 'Reine Claude d'Oullins', 4. Bullace, 5. Damson 'Bradley King', 6. Apricot 'Moor Park', 7. Peach 'Peregrine', 8. Damson 'Merryweather', 9. Nectarine 'Early Rivers'
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Stone fruit on white background from top clockwise: 1. Plum Czar, 2. Victoria, 3. Peach Peregrine, 4. Gage Reine Claude / Oullins Golden Gage
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Stone fruit on white background from top: 1. Damson Merryweather, 2. Nectarine Early Rivers, 3. Gage Reine Claude / Oullins Golden Gage, 4. Peach Peregrine, 5. Bullace, 6. Plum Reeves seedling, 7. Plum Victoria
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Peach, Prunus persica 'Peregrine'
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Peach, Prunus persica 'Hales Earl'
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Peach, Prunus persica 'Peregrine'
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Apricot, Prunus armeniaca 'Delicot'
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Peaches in Brandy
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Fan trained peach against wall with ripe fruit Peregrine.
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Fan trained Peach 'Peregrine' against a wall
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Apricot, Prunus armeniaca 'Delicot'
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Apricot, Prunus armeniaca 'Delicot'
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Apricot, Prunus armeniaca 'Delicot'
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Nectarine, Prunus persica var. nectarina 'Harko'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Rivers Early Prolific'
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Prunus domestica, plum 'Rivers Early Prolific'
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Victoria Plum, Prunus domestica
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Fan trained Victoria Plum
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Picking Victoria plums in the potager
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Harvesting Victoria plums, using an A frame ladder
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Plum 'Edwards' Prunus domestica
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Fan trained 'Shropshire Damson' Prunus insititia
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Prunus domestica 'Marjorie' Seedling'
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Plum 'Victoria'
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Plum 'Reeves' AGM on white background
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Plum 'Giant Prune' on white background
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Plum 'Count Althan's Gage' on white background
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Plum 'Pershore' AGM on white background
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Plum 'Victoria' AGM on white background
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Damson 'Bradley's King' on white background
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Plum 'Mallard' AGM on white background
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Plum 'Merton Gage' on white background
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Plum 'Gutheries Late Green' on white background
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Plum 'Cambridge Gage' AGM on white background
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Plum 'Purple Englebert' on white background
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Plum 'Thames Cross' on white background
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Plum Prunus domestica 'Dawson's Merryweather'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Merton Gage'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Reeves'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Pershore'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Pershore'
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Plum Prunus domestica 'Prince Englebert'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Victoria'
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Apricot, Prunus armeniaca 'Delicot'
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Nectarine, Prunus persica var. nectarina 'Harko'
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Nectarine, Prunus persica var. nectarina 'Harko'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Stanley'
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'Plum, Prunus domestica 'Laxtons Olympia'
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Plum Prunus Domestica 'Old Greengage'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Victoria'
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Damson Prunus insititia 'Bradleys King'
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Damson Prunus insititia 'Merryweather'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Edwards'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Edwards'
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Damson Prunus domestica 'Early Transparent Gage'
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Plum, Prunus domestica 'Brandy gage'
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Plum Prunus insititia 'White Bullace'
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Picking cherries from a netted tree
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Cherry protected from bird damage by a fruit cage
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Prunus avium 'Stella'
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Prunus avium 'Stella'
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Morrello cherries grown as a fan on the side of the house and protected from birds by netting
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Morrello cherries grown as a fan on the side of the house and protected from birds by netting