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Quick update on the project: Treated steel arch ordered in 2 sections 4.5m long each. That's to allow a break in the middle to pass through. Ordered from Agriframes in Bristol who seem pretty good.
Now looking to buy fruit trees and bushes to grow up the outside. Apple, pear, damson, pomegranate (a boy can dream), mirabelle, mulberry, blackcurrant, gooseberry, jostaberry, red currant and white currant.
It's all a bit intimidating...what if I'm making a horrible mistake???
@JimmyB Mulberry is gigantic. Even the 'early' fruiting cultivars. Do you really have space for a tree?
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You can grow apple, pear, quince as cordons.
But mulberry I would think 4 metres and 10 years.
@lionelb If I prune hard to keep it small, it just won't fruit? Is that the issue?
Well I haven't tried myself but that is my understanding.
There are commercial mulberry berry growers somewhere I imagine. What they do would be a good guide.
@lionelb Yes - fair shout. I see them outside the walls in St Malo - there is a line of lovely (about 4m high 
) Mulberry standards by one of the main gates in through the walls to the Intra Muros, and I admire them every time I go past.
I've got space for quite a lot though none can be allowed to get too big so I might just try and see.
But...yeah: will see what the lady from Pomona says as well.