Plum tree - should I be able to see fruit yet??

[BettyButterknife]

We've got a well-established old plum in the garden that hasn't done too well the past few years - it's had a case of brown rot, we haven't been able to pick all the fruit from the higher branches (too high!) for two or three years.

Anyway, it looks lovely and green this year, seems to have put on quite a lot of new growth etc. but I can't see any fruit. Is it too early to see anything yet? Or has something gone terribly wrong? We've never pruned it.

Did your plum tree have any blossom on it last month?

My plum tree has some tiny plums forming - they are about the size of a plum stone at the the moment

I don't think it did

That doesn't seem like a good sign, does it?!?

Mmm, no blossom means no fruit.

This is our 3rd summer here - the first year we had very little blossom (perhaps a dozen on the whole tree) and ended up with 3 pathetic tiny plums.
Last year we had huge amounts of blossom but then a frost at the beginning of june coupled with the most horrendous greenfly infestation (you couldnt see leaves cos they were coated in greenfly) meant we didn't have any fruit.
I'm hoping this will be third time lucky.