Prairie Red Plum (Bundle of 2) | Spring 2027

Yes. Prairie Red Plum needs pollen from a different variety that blooms at about the same time. Prairie Red plants grown from the same original plant cannot pollenize each other, so add a Native American plum seedling or a different hybrid such as Toka. Partners we carry include Native American Plum (Bundle of 3), Toka Plum, Kaga Plum.

We rate Prairie Red Plum hardy to zone 2, which means winters down to about -50°F. Our ratings come from real winters at our two Montana sites and from trusted growers across the North, not from a catalog average.

About 800 hours of winter chill (we count hours at or below 45°F), likely somewhere between 600 and 1,200. Nobody has published a chill figure for it, so that's our estimate from its relatives and origin. Our chill hours guide has a calculator for your winters, and our research page lists the sources.

Our top use scores for Prairie Red Plum are jams and jellies (8/10), windbreaks and hedgerows (8/10), pollenizing other trees (7/10), feeding wildlife (6/10). Anything scored 8 or higher makes our Best Of lists.

We don't know yet. Nobody has published solid disease data on Prairie Red Plum for bacterial canker, bacterial spot, black knot, brown rot, cytospora canker and plum pocket, so we list it as unknown instead of guessing. That doesn't mean it's weak. Plenty of the plants we grow have never been through formal disease trials. Our plum disease resistance chart has every rating, the notes and the sources.

Yes, deer love it. Protect Prairie Red Plum with a fence or a cage, especially while it is young.

A dormant bare-root plant, roots wrapped in moist sawdust with a vapor barrier, shipped or picked up in Missoula in spring. Sizes offered: 3-5 ft. We guarantee our plants bud out. Stone fruits can be slow, so if one still has not budded out by August 15, write to us and we credit you for the following spring.