No damsons

I have around 40 damsons trees in my garden. Normally at this time of year the branches are thick with fruit. This year we haven't had a single damson. A lot of leaves are riddled with holes. Could a pest be responsible, or is it all down to the washout summer here in southern Scotland? Also, the trees are probably at least 30 years old, so could that have something to do with it?
Still, go to look on the bright side. To me the lack of damsons is irritating - but 100 years ago when my land was part of a fruit farm it would have been utterly devastating.

I think the holes might be caused by a fungal disease like shot hole or by a pest, but the lack of crop is I think like Mrs Ball says - the weather.  At the allotment  the plums and damsons were all in blossom when we had hard frosts and they killed it all off. There are very few trees with any fruit at the allotments I am on (and it is a very big site with lots of plum trees). Perhaps we will have a bumper year next year to make up for it!

I have a huge one in my plot and not one this year as well... weather!!

Many people have had poor fruit crops this year.

If you think about it, many blossoms were out early because of a warm snap we had, and it's possible that the usual pollinators weren't out and about that early.  Then, there was that really cold snap.  And also it's been so wet that even if pollinators were alive at the right time, it was too wet for them to fly.

Same here with apples, just a handful of manky ones. Thankfully soft fruit like gooseberries and rasps did well.

So basically we're saying...

If you have anything like sloe gins / vodkas / brandys etc, savor them.

There ain't going to be owt 'til next year. (hopefully)

Just use raspberries instead, yummy 

There were no plums on out trees this year and I noticed lots of holes in the leaves, found a few bugs and identified them as Japanese beetles   Had to pick each one off and drop it in a bucket of soapy water as there is no pesticide for them.