Pear trees
Beth pear tree
An easy and fairly reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour. compare
Concorde pear tree
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour. compare
Conference pear tree
A popular and reliable English pear, Conference is perfectly suited to the English climate. compare
Doyenne du Comice pear tree
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears. compareHumbug pear tree
Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes. compare
Invincible pear tree
As the name suggests, Invincible is a good pear for difficult conditions. compare
Louise Bonne of Jersey pear tree
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh. compare
Moonglow pear tree
A high quality early season dessert and culinary pear, very resistant to fireblight. compare
Onward pear tree
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow. compare
Williams pear tree
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow. compareMore about Pear trees
Pears are related to apples, and most of the horticultural requirements and challenges of apples apply also to growing pear trees. However pear trees are a bit more demanding than apple trees - they prefer slightly warmer conditions and are a bit less tolerant of soil and situation, and crop yields are lower.
On the plus side, pear trees are less susceptible to the various pests and diseases commonly experienced with apples.
When it comes to flavour, pears have an aura of exclusivity which you don't tend to find in apples.
Although there are some culinary pear varieties, all the ones we offer are dessert pears - good for eating fresh, but also useful for culinary purposes too.
Pears are fundamentally self-sterile so will require a pollination partner, in other words a compatible pear tree of a different variety growing nearby. Even the varieties we list as self-fertile will be far more productive with a pollination partner. Conference is probably the only pear variety that is reliably self-fertile.
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