IMHO you can't get much more decorative than this-

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But you sound like you are interested in bush fruits. My favorite is blueberries. There are evergreen blueberries that have lovely fall color but keep their leaves all winter. Some good ones are Misty, Sunshine Blue, and Legacy. One was totally loaded with fruit in 2007, the most I've seen on any blueberry ever. Sea berries in my yard are rank and mine are large and fell over last year. They also come up from roots away from the mother plant. There is a dwarf version of Aronia, which is deciduous but a great fruit plant, though the berries are not tasty raw. Gooseberries are thorny and grow in an rather untidy fashion that would need a lot of pruning. So my vote is for evergreen or regular blueberries, no matter how many I plant I never have enough.

Alpine strawberries don't make runners and can be charming ground covers.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sunshine blue photos

i am gonna be a jerk here and not post photos, due to me not having any around. but...

another vote for sunshine blue blueberries. just a classic small leaved evergreen shrub from a distance. nice new foliage color. nice small flowers. i started mine in containers and just moved them into front of foundation bed at the front of my house (west facing). i had them in very little sun last year, maybe 3 hours mid day. still got a few berries. still good looking. hoping for a bigger crop this year.

as far as ribes? jeez, stick them anywhere. mid bed? they all take to a little pruning now and again, nothing scary. what i love about them is that they don't need all that much sun. great in part shade borders.

or alternately, you could put ribes in an old fashioned rose bed style planting. i've been digging fussy formalism in the garden. sort of a quirky grandma look. ribes would be lots of fun surrounded by a brick rectangle. in that case, it might be nice to defy the tradition a little and put some evergreen ground cover down there. just to make it look nice in winter.

What are ribes?

eeldips ribes may refer to gooseberries/currants.

mastino, seaberries would be better suited to an orchard site, but there are less rampant "Buryatian" varieties available. Keep in mind they are very thorny.

One of my larger seaberries also fell some years ago.

Oh yea, sorry. currants and gooseberries=ribes. attractive flowers, nice foliage. tasty berries. a million varieties. can be pruned to lots of sizes pretty easily. early flowering varieties are going off right now.

BTW, just out this am looking at the new front foundation bed, the sunshine blues are perfectly color matched right now with my cryptomeria elegens nana. cool combo, drastically different foliage and perfect color matching (mixed greens and purples) is funtimes. between and around them are some mixed narcissus- popping right out with the yellows off the purple. HELLO.

if only my camera recharger didn't get mispacked...