Plums: An underrated fruit?

I was weak willed at the store.

So, I now also have a Blue Damson plum tree that I just planted today.

And in a few years, you'll be so glad that you succumbed!

These two plum trees came up as volunteers from my existing Brooks plum trees about 5 years ago. I transplanted them to another spot in my garden.
They have alotta blooms on them just as they did last year. I already warned them twice if they don’t produce any plums this year, I’m taking the axe to them!
And I mean it this time..

Another picture

Not the right discussion, but you guys have been so receptive and kind.
I thought I’d share!
My peach trees are blooming nicely!

Another peach tree

I’ll send a picture of my two older Brooks when they are in bloom, maybe two weeks.

Ed Hoffman wrote:I’ll send a picture of my two older Brooks when they are in bloom, maybe two weeks.

If they are blooming at different times then the transplanted ones are from the rootstock.  I have one blooming early now which is from the rootstock because the grafted plum succumbed to disease.  It is the first to boom and produsesonl a few tiny plums.

I love plums!  My favourite variety is ornamental plums, yes you indeed can eat those adorable cherry-sized baby plums on that tree that your parents told you you couldn't eat plums from.  The neighbours across from my dad's house have one and I've been partaking of it since I was a kid and the best friend of my youth lived there.  We'd eat them together and climb the tree and generally make merry and she had a swing hung from it we'd swing on, the gift that keeps on giving.

Now adays I'm growing my own cute lil' plumtree, though its more ordinary so will produce average sized plums.  I got it from a different friend's old yard, she moved recently, but the Mama plumtree there made a lot of babies and I have one in a pot right now, he's happily growing, from a pit, not grafted.  It will take him years to produce but that's okay, I can wait.

A number of years ago, I finally had to cut (after several attempts at pruning out) my only plum tree down because of black knot.  It persists around the property mostly on what I believe to be wild cherry trees and some chokecherry bushes.  I want to grow plums though so any tips?