Thinking of trying

They look very similar to the ballerina trees I bought Mr Sunny about five years ago. We have an apple, two pears and a cherry.

Tbh they needed so much water in pots (even huge pots) that we planted them in the ground.

We get about a dozen decent sized apples off the tree, the pears have been less prolific and the cherry gives us about two bowlfuls (bowl is 1.5l size)

So ... they are better than no trees at all  but won't make you self sufficient in top fruit

Pruning is easy too

Not sure how much they cost now but B&Q sold loads of semi dwarf rootstock fruit trees - they cost £9.99p but with 25% off at the time (round about Easter nearly 10 years ago), I got carried away and bought 13 fruit trees (different apple varieties, pear, plum, cherry)  I do have the garden for that many - just remember it's not just height but width to look out for as well when planting out. 

The cherries were a mistake (too many blackbirds and the garden not suitable for netting off) but give a lovely floral display every spring and that encourages the bees, and you really need to check that you have suitable pollinating partners especially the apples before buying.  The trees take a good 3 years to mature enough to be productive, especially pears that can take up to 5 years (I thought I had duff trees when I never even got a single pear, but it's perfectly normal and now they are amazing producers)

thanks, might think twice now, I'm after some verily cheap fruit trees that only grow 2m maximum anyone out there got any good contacts/site?

You'll still need to prune - it's only the rootstock that limits the growth to some extent, but the grafted variety is still going to put on normal growth.

thanks found some:-

http://www.idealworld.tv/The_Complete_Patio_Mini_Orchard_Collection_203102.aspx?fh_location=//idealworld/en_GB/$s=friut%20trees