The best pears are home grown from your own pear tree and they are one of the most delectable of tree fruits. Popular commercial pears and tough skinned to avoid bruising during travel to the shop, but as gardeners producing our own dessert fruits, we have the real luxury of picking fully ripe, sweet, juicy, succulent fleshed fruits still warm from the sun. A real treat.
For picking early October, the large dessert fruits are yellow/green with pronounced red f lush. The delicious flesh is sweet and melting. A regular copper with strong, upright growth. The blossom is fairly frost tolerant...
For harvesting mid October and eating November and December. A most beautiful clear yellow pear, ripening with an orange flush. Outstanding for flavour, the sweet, juicy, tender flesh simply melts away. Compact, upright growth. Pollinate...
(B) BEURRE HARDY Season mid to late October. Pick when the fruits are hard and ripen in store. Medium to large fruits that have a good, sweet flavour. The flesh is white and juicy. A strong...
A useful new addition to our lists, Cannock is a small pale green-yellow pear which is ready for picking in September and use until December. It has a number of uses, including bottling, stewing and...
For picking mid October and eating until late November but, with good storage, this variety will keep much longer. The medium sized fruits are long, dark green, changing to yellow-green with a brown russet. The...
For eating October and November. The fruits are golden yellow with a red-brown russet. A popular eating variety and a very good flavour. Very fertile and ideal compact growth for the smallest garden. The fruits...
A small spreading tree with beautiful red Autumn leaves and moderately sized smooth skinned olive green Pears Maturing from late September, they have a much coveted perfumed soft tender and juicy flesh. Yields well, a...
NEW Truly Invincible by name and nature, a pear which will never let you down! You have never known a pear like it! The reason Invincible is so reliable is because, uniquely it produces 2...
For picking and storing to eat in December and January. A very reliable cropper that normally makes a smaller tree, with its weak to moderate, rather weeping habit. The blossom is fairly frost resistant and...
A very exceptional variety from East Malling Research Station. An early dessert eating variety with excellent texture and the most beautiful flavour. Medium size fruits for picking September through to October. Keeps well for an...
For eating late September and October. White, sweet flesh with a good flavour. A good crop from a tree with moderate, upright growth. Not a good pollinator for other varieties.
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A very fertile and hardy variety with handsome yellow fruits that are flushed scarlet. Good upright growth. Picked and eaten in September. Pollinators include: Onward, Beth, Concorde etc.
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A new variety, raised by the Institute of Horticultural Research, East Malling. Concorde is a superb, very heavy cropping variety, with a flavour to match the quality of the fruits. Raised from a cross between...
For picking and eating in late October/November and keeping into December or longer if stored, but this pear is so delicious there are unlikely to be any left for storing. The fruits are large, golden...
A very early variety, that is ready for picking just after mid August for eating from late August onwards. An easy to grow variety with compact, upright growth, producing yellow fruits with a slight flush....
For picking late October and storing for eating in December/January. A medium sized fruit that is green and turns to yellow when ripe in store. Very fertile and very reliable. An excellent flavourful storing variety....
Again selected for the exciting flavour. A popular sweet, musky flavour from the white and tender, melting flesh. Small to medium sized fruits that are pale yellow with a light russet. Good, upright growth. Ready...
Season October. A very heavy crop from a tree that has good disease resistance. The medium sized fruits are very sweet and juicy for dessert, with an excellent, melting texture. A dual purpose variety that...
A new addition to our lists, Moonglow is a very attractive pear with a bright lemon-yellow skin. Ready for picking in August and use through September, the flavour is similar to Williams with the soft,...
A relatively recent introduction which may be enjoyed throughout November from storage and sometimes longer. Although a fairly compact tree it is heavy cropping, producing large chartreuse fruits partly covered by beautiful golden russet. Scab...
For picking mid September to early October. Raised at the National Fruit Trials by a cross between LaxIon Superb and Doyenne du Comice. The medium to large fruits are yellowish green with variable patches of...
Every season we are in receipt of so many requests to bud this very old variety specifically for customers who know it, we have decided to add it to our lists and this Season we...
A pear which has an almost entirely red skin finish which is extremely attractive. Derived from Williams, it has the same, very sweet and juicy flavour, in fact perhaps even better! Uniquely, the new growths...
(C) WILLIAMS BON CHRETIEN The most universally grown pear. Ready for picking from September. The medium sized fruit is bright yellow with patches of russet and occasional red streaks on the sun exposed side. The white,...
The fruit should be harvested in late October or early November and stored for eating November, December and January. First class fruits have been enjoyed even as late as March. To enjoy the fruits at...
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