Stanley European Plum

Tree arrived on time and appears to be strong and healthy.

My Stanly prune-plum arrived with the box in good condition. I got it planted after watching the very helpful videos you recommended. Now I am waiting for new buds to sprout. Hoping for the best! It's still cool here in Oroville, Wa, but the weather is warming.

Planted in 2018 and the tree is now mature and in full production. Very well crosspollinate with "Seneca" and "Schoolhouse" and sets an abundant crop. Ripens late, in south PA zone 7A first truly ripe fruits starts coming on the second week of September. Plums are sweet and flavorful, so wasps and hornets try to get them part too... Fruits are completely freestone, moderately juicy, so perfect for canning and drying. Beautiful shape of fruits and deep blue color with vax boom, which makes the color look light blue (see photos uploaded). The tree shows significant disease resistance: leaves are healthier than "Seneca's" and fruits are less attacked by Brown Rot (just few). There is little susceptibility to Black Knot, but it is completely absent on some years, so resistance to this disease is strong.

I could not be more thrilled with the quality of the stock I received. Healthy sized root 'ball', multiple good sized branches, and those branches are starting to leaf out 1 week after planting. Worth every penny.

I ordered the 4ft tree and paid a premium for it. I intended to train it for columnar form. Unfortunately, the reel had it main leader cut at some earlier time and an angled branch now tops the trunk. My only option will be to either to cut the top again and graft or replace the tree. Basically wasted a year.