fruit shrub
Chickasaw plum
Tough, wildlife-friendly, and useful where cultivated plums struggle.
Growing Profile
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a-9b
- Sun
- full
- Soil
- clay, loam, sandy
- Water
- low
- Goals
- Fruit, Pollinators & wildlife, Curb appeal & color, Privacy & screening, Low-maintenance natives
Harvest & Use
ripens in early summer
Useful search phrase: Chickasaw plum plant.
Plant Relationships
Understory Medium
Low alliums and long-blooming flowers can form a simple orchard-edge understory without competing heavily with young trees.