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  • 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 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

  • 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)

  • 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 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

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

  • 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 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 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

  • Jargonelle is a sweet early summer pear, and will grow in most situations.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Josephine de Malines pear trees
    A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Kumoi asian pear trees
    One of the most popular Asian pears, with a firm flesh and sweet flavour.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile

  • 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 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 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

  • Olympic has potentially the largest fruits of any Asian pear variety.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Packham's Triumph pear trees
    Perhaps the best known Australian pear, producing large quantities of small but sweet-flavoured pears.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • Pitmaston Duchess pear trees
    Pitmaston Duchess is a traditional English dual-purpose, noted for the very large size of its pears.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Santa Claus pear trees
    As the name suggests, Santa Claus is a late ripening dessert pear which keeps until Christmas.
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile

  • 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 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)