Name that fruit?

[bloodywhitecat]

We have a tree at the bottom of the garden that blossoms but has never borne fruit. Every year DH swore he would get it to fruit but it never did. DH died in February this year and the bloody tree is laden with some kind of plum but what are they? They are much smaller than the plums on our regular plum tree.

Nectarines?

I thought nectarines were peach sized? These are about half the size of a plum

It's a plum

OP found this on Wikipedia, the Mirabelle plum and I've copied the bit about the fruit in England. Hopefully it'll be pasted below. Feck knows if it's your tree but it seems similar and I thought it was interesting. Sorry for your loss.

In England, mirabelles grow both wild and cultivated in Essex, and there are yellow, orange and red varieties in Maylandsea and at Alresford in Hampshire. The Metz variety grows wild in Suffolk at Leathes' Ham, near Oulton Broad. One tree can also be found growing wild in North West England in Liverpool, and several may be found in the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes. Red and yellow varieties have also been found recently in an ancient hedgerow just outside Northampton. A lone tree found in a nature area in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire produced a massive crop in 2015. Several mirabelles have also been seen in East Ashling hedgerow fields near Chichester West Sussex. The mirabelle is also found in hedgerows in Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and on the Millfied Golf Course, Lincolnshire.

I am in Suffolk and it is in the hedgerow along our boundary line so Mirabelle would fit, thank you

Mirabelles are amazing. Really sweet. They grow all over the place in France

Ooh I'm tempted to hunt down the one in Liverpool, still miles away though.

Mirabelles are really common in hedgerows. They tend to be a bit boom or bust with fruit.

In boom years we have made Japanese salted dried plums. Once all the sensible culinary options have been exhausted. You can pick them by the bucket.

Yes, I would agree with mirabelles. They tended to fruit every other year for us when we had one.