My potager garden is a small garden on the island of Resarö, Resarö is situated in the inner part of the archipelago outside of Stockholm. Tyra´s Garden is mostly an ornamental vegetable garden, potager. But flowers are of course an important ingredience, for beauty and pollination.
Tyra's Garden is a small garden on the island of Resarö situated in the inner part of the archipelago near the small town Vaxholm, outside Stockholm. Tyra's Garden is mostly an ornamental vegetable garden, my potager. But flowers are of course an important ingredience, for beauty and pollination. The climate in these parts is quite demanding as the northerly winds can be strong and cold. THIS BLOG 'Tyra's Garden' is not entirely a gardenblog it contains much more. About me: Enthusiastic amateur gardener and photographer from Vaxholm, Sweden. Designed and built my Greenhouse and Potager in Tyra's Garden 2003. Love the outdoor life, gardening and sailing especially. View my profile

Sunday

Miss Emilie's Opal Plum Pie

This post 'Miss Emilie's Opal Plum Pie' was originally uploaded by Tyra in the blog Tyras Garden



Now I so wish you could taste this!


Miss Emilie's plum and almond pie, it is so delicious. The thin crispy pie shell merges together with from the plum slightly moist layer of coarse almond paste and then on the top the lovely sugar powdered Opal plums. It is beautiful to look at and absolutely scrumptious, sweet in taste and yet still a bit tangy from the Opal fruit.  

October flowers and food.
 - Echinacea with a butterfly friend, my red Morton's basil,
Opal plum fruit and  Miss Emilie's plum & almond tart.





Opal is a Swedish self-fertile plumtree, a successful cross of a french and an english plum. This sure is one of my favourites. Beautiful and tasty, it is a really nice cooking plum too, perfect for marmalades and chutneys.


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 This is what Ashridge trees says about the Opal plum tree.

"Opal plums are sweet, bite-sized dessert plums that range in colour from bright yellow to deep purple, on the same tree and often on the same fruit. They have pale yellow flesh with a characteristic Greengage flavour. Opal plums are early fruiters in a good year you can start picking the first fruit at the end of July. Because they are so early, Opal plums ripen rapidly and so do better in the South of England; they also reward being planted in a south facing spot - trained against a south facing wall or ina warm corner is perfect.


Opal's History and Parentage

Opal is one of the creations of the Horticultural Research Stations in Alnarp and Balsgard in Sweden. It was produced from a cross between two classic plum trees, Early Favourite and Oullins Gage, which are respectively tough English and tasty French varieties.

Plum Tree Pollination guide for Opal Prunus domestica

Opal plum trees are truly self-fertile, which means no pollination partner is needed. It really is a good plum as it crops steadily each year." read further at  Ashridge trees 


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5 comments:

Anna said...

Mmmmmmmm ~ sounds and looks delicious Tyra :)

Glädjekällans Trädgårdsblogg said...

Ser gott ut.
Har också ett opalträd men här är plommonen slut för länge sedan. Om inte hade jag bett om receptet.
Ha det gott
Birgitta

Ruben said...

Tyra!! Vilken läckergom du är! Det ser delikat ut!!!
Svar: Har inte odlat tulpaner inomhus förut, så det är ett experiment. Jag tog de lökar jag hade över, men nog tror jag, att låga sorter passar bäst!
Ha det gott!
/Ruben - your favorite blogger.

Commonweeder said...

Plums and almonds - what a delicious combination. One of our plum trees had to come down because of black knot, but I have hopes that the other one will survive.

*Ulrike* said...

Such a beautiful looking plum. I don't know if we would have such a tree here or not.