Pear Trees

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 and extremely beautiful in flower. A superb dessert pear, very fertile. One of the best pollinators is Conference.

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 with Louise Bonne de Jersey, Conference, Durondeau etc.

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 juice, but also as a dessert fruit if stored for long enough.

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 flesh is creamy white and sometimes has a slightly pinkish tinge. The pleasant flavour is juicy and sweet. A very regular and heavy cropper that is partially self fertile, so if you are growing only one variety, this is the one for you. The trees are moderately vigorous, upright and fairly compact. Although self fertile, pollinators always improve the quality of the crop. Suitable pollinators…

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 sets of blossom. So, during late frost years it will still produce a crop, when every other pear tree around is barren! The further advantage of this is that, if late frosts do not occur, Invincible will set 2 separate crops which then mature over a very long picking period. It is not unusual for Invincible to he harvested from the lst week of September…

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 the fruits are rather small with a green/yellow skin and russet around the stalk. This variety excels for its truly remarkable flavour for eating around the Christmas period. The flesh is pink/white and so extremely tender and juicy. It is as well that Josephine de Malines has to be stored, as without this requirement, there would certainly be none left for this purpose. An exceptional…

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.

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.

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. Very juicy, tender flesh, with a sweet flavour. Ideal pollinators include: Conference, Durondeau, Fertility, Williams, Beth etc. Dr Jules Guyot is, itself, a very good pollinator for other varieties.

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. Excels in full sun. Pollinators include: Onward, Williams Bon Chretien, Beth, Winter Nellis etc.