You can't pick plums in a desert.

Finding advertisers for handbooks and dinner brochures at the moment is like picking plums in September.

He was in his father's garden, picking plums.

Picking plums, maybe, but only because where the plums were he could listen to your conversation, and be ready to continue his pursuit of you.

They told the girls everything immediately after breakfast, when they went to pick currants, raspberries and plums for a fruit salad.

We can pick plums from the garden as well.

"I had no idea they were so popular," said Damen Reschke, 20, as people picked plums under the deck he was standing on.

She picked plums for her aunt's jam-making and then went to look at the apples.

It was perfectly clear why he wanted to go picking plums, but Yumiko had not expected such sophistication from her three-year-old.

"Is it all right if I go pick plums?"