Spring / Summer 2025Pre-order now for delivery September onwards.
Tel. 01759 392007
  1. Home
  2. Variety search
Share the link to this page of varieties. Share?

Varieties

26 varietiesClear all
View matching varieties View the list of varieties which match your search criteria

Categories

  • 1
  • 3
  • 26
  • 22
  • 4
  • 1
  • 8

Stock availability

  • 26
  • 26
  • 0

Form

  • 24
  • 4
  • 15
  • 9
  • 6
  • 8
  • 3

Mature size

  • 3
  • 12
  • 26

Rootstocks

  • 3?
  • 1?
  • 12?
  • 5?
  • 26?
  • 3?
  • 6?
  • 25?
  • 14?
  • 1?

Supplied as

  • 25
  • 16
  • 6

Growing

Gardening skill?

  • 7
  • 17
  • 2

Self-fertility?

  • 5
  • 4
  • 17

Flowering group?

  • 4
  • 13
  • 9

Pollinating others?

  • 5
  • 14
  • 5

Fruit bearing

  • 18
  • 1

Climate suitability

  • 22
  • 5
  • 17

Using

Picking season?

  • 5
  • 7
  • 12
  • 1

Cropping?

  • 9
  • 15
  • 2

Keeping (of fruit)?

  • 9
  • 9
  • 7
  • 1

Food uses

  • 23
  • 6
  • 1

Problems

Disease resistance?

  • 8
  • 6
  • 3

Canker

  • 1
  • 1

Scab (Apple and Pear)

  • 3
  • 9
  • 4

Powdery mildew

  • 1
  • 1
  • 4

Fire blight

  • 1
  • 2
  • 5
  • 3

Bacterial canker

Peach leaf curl

Woolly aphid

  • 1

Identification

Country of origin

  • 1
  • 4
  • 7
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 10
  • 2

Period of origin

  • 1
  • 1
  • 4
  • 4
  • 3
  • 5
  • 6
  • 1

Flowering month

Blossom colour

  • 13

Fruit colour

  • 2
  • 8
  • 1
  • 5
  • 3
  • 1
  • 1
  • 3
  • 1
  • 2
  • 1

Flesh colour

  • 2
  • 2

Awards

  • 8
  • 4

  • Benita Rafzas®

    Benita Rafzas is an unusual cross between an Asian and European pear.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Beth

    Beth pear trees
    An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Beurre Hardy

    Beurre Hardy pear trees
    A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Beurre Superfin

    Beurre Superfin pear trees
    A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Black Worcester

    Black Worcester pear trees
    The oldest true English pear, 16th century or earlier. Ideal for stewed pears.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Catillac

    Catillac pear trees
    A very old French culinary pear, dating back to the reign of Louis XIV.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Celebration NUVAR®

    Celebration NUVAR pear trees
    Nuvar Celeberation is a large modern dessert pear.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Christie

    Christie is a traditional Scottish dessert pear.
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Concorde

    Concorde pear trees
    A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Conference

    Conference pear trees
    Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Conference Moors Giant®

    Moors Giant is a natural sport of the popular Conference pear - all the same qualities, but with much larger fruit size.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • CornishgoldTM

    Cornishgold pear trees
    An unusual and ancient juicing and culinary pear discovered in a garden in Cornwall, also known as the Treburrow Pear. Self-fertile and tolerant of difficult climates.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Doyenne du Comice

    Doyenne du Comice pear trees
    Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Fondante d'Automne

    Fondante d'Automne pear trees
    An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Glou Morceau

    Glou Morceau pear trees
    A traditional 18th century Belgian pear with a notably rich sweet flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Gorham

    Gorham pear trees
    A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Humbug

    Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Invincible

    Invincible pear trees
    Invincible is a high quality pear which can also cope with difficult conditions.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • Louise Bonne of Jersey

    Louise Bonne of Jersey pear trees
    An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Merton Pride

    Merton Pride pear trees
    One of the best English pears, with a notably juicy buttery flesh.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Moonglow

    Moonglow pear trees
    A high quality early season dessert and culinary pear, very resistant to fireblight.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Obelisk®

    Obelisk pear trees
    A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Onward

    Onward pear trees
    Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Sensation

    Sensation pear trees
    A red-coloured sport of the popular Williams pear, with a similar good flavour.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Williams

    Williams pear trees
    Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Winter Nelis

    Winter Nelis pear trees
    A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile