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Pear trees

We have an extensive range of pear trees, especially dessert pear varieties for eating fresh, but also Asian varieties, and traditional culinary varieties. Most varieties are available with a choice of rootstocks to control the mature size and spread, and supplied either bare-root or pot-grown.

Pears generally require slightly better conditions than apples, but are also slightly less susceptible to the various pests and diseases commonly experienced with apples. Newly-planted pear trees on Quince rootstocks are particularly sensitive to water stress in their first few years, make sure you keep them well-watered.

Most pear varieties are self-sterile so will require a compatible pear tree of a different variety growing nearby for pollination purposes. 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.

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

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

  • Buy Beurre Hardy pear trees
    A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
    £39.75 - £64.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Beurre Superfin pear trees
    A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Black Worcester pear trees
    The oldest true English pear, 16th century or earlier. Ideal for stewed pears.
    £38.25 - £64.50buy
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Blakeney Red perry pear trees
    A popular perry pear, and one of the most reliable croppers. Produces a medium-tannin juice.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Brandy perry pear trees
    A mid-season English perry pear which produces a low-tannin juice.
    £37.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Catillac pear trees
    A very old French culinary pear, dating back to the reign of Louis XIV.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Celebration NUVAR pear trees
    Nuvar Celeberation is a large modern dessert pear.
    £39.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Chanticleer is an attractive ornamental pear, grown for its spring blossom and autumn leaf colours.
    £66.50 - £72.50buy
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Christie is a traditional Scottish dessert pear.
    £58.75buy
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Clapps Favourite pear trees
    An attractive red-flushed early-season pear from the USA.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Buy Concorde pear trees
    A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
    £38.25 - £63.00buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Conference pear trees
    Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
    £38.25 - £63.00buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

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

  • Buy 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.
    £41.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Doyenne du Comice pear trees
    Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
    £38.25 - £63.00buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Fondante d'Automne pear trees
    An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.
    £38.25 - £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Buy Gin perry pear trees
    A rare English perry pear variety with good disease resistance and medium acid and tannins.
    £37.50buy
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Glou Morceau pear trees
    A traditional 18th century Belgian pear with a notably rich sweet flavour.
    £38.25buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Buy Gorham pear trees
    A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Green Horse perry pear trees
    A traditional Gloucestershire perry pear, which produces a low tannin perry.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 5

  • Buy Hendre Huffcap perry pear trees
    A well-known English perry pear variety, and a reliable cropper. Makes a light, low-tannin perry.
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Invincible pear trees
    Invincible is a high quality pear which can also cope with difficult conditions.
    £38.25 - £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Jargonelle is a sweet early summer pear, and will grow in most situations.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Josephine de Malines pear trees
    A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Judge Amphlet perry pear trees
    A popular English perry pear variety producing a light, low-tannin juice.
    £37.50buy
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 1

  • Buy Kumoi asian pear trees
    One of the most popular Asian pears, with a firm flesh and sweet flavour.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Buy Louise Bonne of Jersey pear trees
    An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
    £38.25 - £58.75buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Merton Pride pear trees
    One of the best English pears, with a notably juicy buttery flesh.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Buy Moonglow pear trees
    A high quality early season dessert and culinary pear, very resistant to fireblight.
    £38.25 - £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Obelisk pear trees
    A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.
    £38.25 - £60.00buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

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

  • Buy Onward pear trees
    Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
    £39.75 - £58.75buy
    • Picking season: Mid
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Packham's Triumph pear trees
    Perhaps the best known Australian pear, producing large quantities of small but sweet-flavoured pears.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Pendula pear trees
    A very attractive flowering pear tree, notable for its distinctive weeping branches, and silver-green leaves.
    £72.50buy
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Buy Pitmaston Duchess pear trees
    Pitmaston Duchess is a traditional English dual-purpose, noted for the very large size of its pears.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Santa Claus pear trees
    As the name suggests, Santa Claus is a late ripening dessert pear which keeps until Christmas.
    £40.50 - £59.00buy
    • Picking season: Very late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Buy Sensation pear trees
    A red-coloured sport of the popular Williams pear, with a similar good flavour.
    £40.50buy
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Shinseiki asian pear trees
    This popular Asian pear variety is well suited to the UK climate, and produces crisp sweet-flavoured pears.
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 2

  • Shipova is a rare pear / whitebeam hybrid, producing small pear-like edible fruits.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • An attractive upright flowering pear tree with silvery green foliage, and small ornamental fruits.

  • Buy Thorn perry pear trees
    An ancient pear variety from Gloucestershire, now used mainly for perry production.
    £37.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Williams pear trees
    Williams is a classic self-fertile English pear, with good flavour, heavy-cropping, and quite easy to grow.
    £38.25 - £61.50buy
    • Picking season: Early
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Buy Winnals Longdon perry pear trees
    A traditional Herefordshire perry pear variety, produces a low tannin perry.
    £37.50buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

  • Buy Winter Nelis pear trees
    A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.
    £38.25 - £58.75buy
    • Picking season: Late
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 4

  • Buy Yellow Huffcap perry pear trees
    Yellow Huffcap is a well-known English perry pear.
    • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
    • Flowering group: 3

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