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Pretty much all fruit trees thrive in clay. I had espaliered pears around half the perimeter of my old garden and they fruited in their third year, the harder you prune the more they will fruit. If possible, buy them as bare root 'whips' (single stems) as these establish quickest, this is the right time of year to do so. No great soil prep is needed, you can literally shove them in a slit in the ground, although a little organic matter will no doubt help. Ideally, buy on a dwarfing rootstock and plant with the graft a few inches above soil surface. Pears grow tall if not on a dwarfing rootstock and you probably don't want to prune and harvest from a high ladder!
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I don't think I'll ever grow salad though, nature taking care of that here means "did you know common garden snails are edible as your salad has been recycled into them? ;)