Tree suggestions please

[MrsKipling16]

I’m hoping to make some progress with my garden this year - it’s a south-west facing corner plot with a “wedge” shaped area to the east where I’m looking to make a paved area, with a tree in the centre as a feature - not my garden, but something similar to the attached photo.

I like the idea of a fruit tree, perhaps a pear or a plum but I am also open to other suggestions, perhaps something that will provide year round interest? The ground here has a fair amount of clay.

I’ve got a cherry tree in the front garden that does well (although the birds always get the cherries before me!) and my neighbour has a fig tree that also does well.

Please can you suggest any suitable trees that won’t grow so big they damage the patio?

Thank you

I’d suggest an Amelanchier, they are a lovely shrub/tree. At this time of year they have delicate white flowers with young bronze coloured leaves, which then turn green. In the Autumn the leaves turn back to a golden red colour and it has berries.
Growth can be 5 metres+ but it is quite slow growing.

Thanks BeeBumble2 - that’s very pretty, although having looked on the RHS website, they can grow up to 8m which would be too big for the space I have.

Any other recommendations please?