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Hi James,
I might try a multi stemmed crab apple from Van der berk nurseries. Its called Malus Donald Wyman, I think it ticks the boxes of what your looking for. Keeps its fruit during the winter. Apples are smaller than your average crab apple.I have found vsn der berk excellent to deal with. They have a UK supply im pretty sure. Nice dilemma to have!!!
Best of luck
Paul
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do they want to eat the frute,use it for cooking or making drinks or just decorative you could consider somthing like they have done a alnwick castle walled garden
Depends if they want to eat the fruit .
Another Malus to add to the list is Evereste & Profusion a lot of the malus family are ideal .
They is the obvious canidates like apple - cherry - pear - plum. I wouldn't bother with damsons we will all be dead before it crops well. Unlikely to get fruit on peach / necterines and apricots unless you live in mild climate .
I personally adore Cornus Trees and the Kousa group do get edible fruit what look like little strawberries, Plenty of varieties to look at .
Amelchier fruit are also edible and a good all round tree. Arbutus unedo have edible fruit and are very architectural
Have you ever eaten a cornus kousa fruit?.I wouldn't recommend it.
A group of Three fruit trees may make a bigger statement than One fruit tree .
Roses ? produce blooms and fruit , reliable and look nice climbing up a structure such as an arch .
If they love fruit victoria plums will keep on cropping for years
Thanks for all the replies and ideas.
I plan to investigate alll the ideas at the end of the week and tray come up with a plan at the weekend.
Two nurseries worth a look are Paramount plants and Wykeham Mature Plants