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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?
Commercially, seeing 3 metre pyramids in California.
@lionelb Me too! 
The frame is 2.3 high so probably 2.5 with spread. Hmmmm.
Yep. Absolutely avoid inside the frame.
Which begs the question, can you protect against birds even if you get fruit?
Solutions are explosives or hawks...
@lionelb Well - that's a great shout. But we sort of take the view that, if we can get some fruit, then the birds are welcome to have some too. It is an issue though. Had a nice cherry which I did net last year. Lovely fruit - and lots of it. With a hole in the net...and the day I came to harvest a blackbird had got in and taken every single one.