Tuesday
Aug232011
The Cherry Plum Tree
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 10:42 PM 
I am a flagrant fruit fiend! As anyone who knows me even the tiniest bit will testify. And, as such, this is one of the best times of the year.
Shops and gardens are still flowing with summer berries….but now autumn’s harvest is there for the picking, too. Quite literally.
The hedgerows are offering blackberries and crab apples; whilst the moors are usually scattered with late bilberries (sadly, not this year). Daily, I’m passing trees laden with apples and pears; and secretly hoping the fruits of a certain damson tree might come my way.
As a total fruit-case, I love to taste anything I haven’t encountered before….but that happens all too rarely (‘cause I’ve already sunk my teeth into pretty much everything on offer).
Today, then, was a bright red letter day. A very nice lady invited me to help myself to her cherry plum tree. Cherry plums? Never heard of them! But the description was pretty exact. The shiny fruit looked like oversized cherries; but the taste was pure, sweet plum.
I may well have to pass that garden again ‘by chance’ at the same time next year!
Reader Comments (5)
Beautiful, Helen. I wonder if these plums might be what we call Sugar Plums? I discovered these little babies this summer and I love them!
They sure do look good enough to eat and such a perfect shape.
Oh good! Glad someone else has come across them! :)
Mums! Danish for "looks absolutely delicious like something I would put my teeth in right away and not speak until finished". Beautyful Helen (both the picture and that you managed to get one to eat!)
More than one - I came away with a sack of them! :)