Stone Fruit - What should I plant?

Although I look at each year and see where I can improve it's great to see things at certain points and think "there's something to add to my list!"

This year it's been like that with the stone fruit. We've just not had enough and I need to plant more!

I've seen lots of people sharing pictures of their cherries, plums and gages and I just think we need to plant more.

I did pull out one tree where the poly tunnel has gone, a Czar plum. So that's put us one down and that leaves us with just a few. I have three small cherry trees which seem to be there only to feed the birds, alongside these is another 5 root stocks. I should be proactive this week and cut them back hard and do some "budding" to give them a variety now they have some good roots. Otherwise they're just going to grow leaves for me next year again!

Wasps eating my gages! 

I only have one gage and one plum that are producing at the moment. the gage is called "Early Transparent"  and has been a reliable cropper so far. They are, however, difficult to tell if they're ripe or not as they seem to change colour in stages and although they can look ripe one side, the other can be quite green. This makes picking them difficult and the wasps are having a field day!

Early Transparent gage - not easy to see when it's ready! 

 The plum is a favourite the country over - Victoria! And it's a favourite with good reason. I'm still yet to taste another that tastes as good as one of these fresh off the tree. Sheer sweet goodness!

Victoria plum - easily the bets I've ever tasted! 

I also have one I planted from a stone, I thought it was from a yellow egg cooker and I had read somewhere that they will grow true from a stone (one of the only ones), but that doesn't seem true. What has grow looks very wild and very much a more like wild relative. Still an interesting experiment and I can always graft it over in a few years time if the fruit turns out to be no good.

I have another wild tree in the orchard where the scion part of the graft died on a tree I purchased and the root stock kept going. This is another one that I need to take action with and graft over, otherwise it'll be another wasted year of no fruit. I think for this one I might just put Victoria on top of it and have a second one!

A tree I planted from a stone - not sure what these will be like.

I also have some damson trees (three I think). If anyone wants a fast growing tree these are the ones to go for, they shoot ahead of the others! I don't have much fruit on them this year though. Maybe enough for a crumble but certainly not enough for jam. The one has a very bent top from how laden with fruit it has been in the past. The trees are only six years old!

A few damsons - not enough for jam this year. 

So my plan for the Autumn and Winter is to purchase some more stone fruit trees. I'm thinking a few more plums, to spread the season, some more cherries to hopefully grow so many the birds leave us some, and maybe another gage, but a different sort to the one I have.

I'm even tempted to put in a small hedge of cherry plums (myrobalan) somewhere, I have a couple in the coppice but they are yet to fruit for me! Does anyone grow these and think they're worth it?

What would you recommend I grow?

I'd love to hear your favourite stone fruit types! Especially the plums, would love a long season of them!