Santa Rosa Plum Tree

Treat yourself to in-season Plums in arms reach, when you plant or Santa Rosa Plum Tree (Prunus 'Santa Rosa') in your yard. First introduced right here in the United States by Luther Burbank, in 1906 in Santa Rosa, California!

This variety is a deciduous, fruit-bearing tree that offers a dependable and delicious harvest each year. Plant one where you can readily enjoy its beautiful blossoms and its gorgeous, juicy fruit.

Watch each spring as the Santa Rosa Plum's fabulously fragrant spring blooms, in frilly white flowers with a pink blush, make their way into your landscape. You'll create a visual spectacle that will have the whole neighborhood jealous.

Enjoy the show while you can; by late July or early August, those blossoms will give way to lovely Plums, ripe for the taking. Santa Rosa Japanese Plums are beautiful to behold, with red-hued, purple skin concealing a layer of red blush, then sweet, yellow flesh surrounding the center clingstone pit.

How to Use Santa Rosa Plum Tree

Your Santa Rosa Plum Tree will produce medium-large, slightly firm fruits that are ideal for fresh-eating right off the tree. Slice them for inclusion in a fruit salad, or add them to a fruit snack plate.

These beautiful Plums are also perfect for canning, freezing, cooking, drying, so you can easily preserve some of your bounty for enjoying later on in the year or sharing with others as gifts. Santa Rosa's firm flesh has amazing flavor! It is sweet with a slightly tangy edge, perfect for a wide variety of uses.

Edible landscaping is all the rage, so remember these gorgeous trees serve double duty as both an ornamental flowering tree that just happens to also grow healthful fruit! Plum leaves are lush and also have great fall color. Even the branching is ornate and provides winter interest!

Faster growing and vigorous, these trees are amazingly heat resistant and do great up to USDA growing zones 9, while being cold hardy down to zone 5! A great size for both a front yard accent tree and for easy use in the orchard!

#ProPlantTips For Care

All fruit trees do their best in full sun, at least 6-8 hours of uninterrupted sunlight. This gives you the highest amount of blooms and therefore the most fruit and the best tasting Plums possible.

Needing ample access to moisture, especially during fruit formation, Plums prefer well-drained soils. A generous layer of mulch helps retain soil moisture as well as insulate the root system from heat and chill.

Santa Rosa Plum Tree is a relatively hardy tree, adaptable to a variety of soils and heat tolerant. It's even self-fruitful, so you don't need to have more than one to enjoy a healthy harvest. Santa Rosa only requires about 300-500 chill hours a year to fruit.

However, you will get more fruit production when planted with other Japanese varieties as pollinator partners. Try Methley or Burgundy to amplify your harvest.

Santa Rosa is an old favorite among Plum lovers and still one of the most often grown. A pretty tree, especially during the spring and late summer growing seasons, Santa Rosa a great investment in something that is both useful and beautiful. Order yours today!