• See also:
• Cooking pears7
• Asian pear trees3

Dessert pears

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  Beth

  

  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)
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  Beurre Hardy

  

  A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Beurre Superfin

  A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Celebration NUVAR®

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Christie

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Clapps Favourite

  

  An attractive red-flushed early-season pear from the USA.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Concorde

  

  A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.

  £47.00buy

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
• In stock

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  Conference

  

  Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.

  £48.50buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Conference Moors Giant®

  Moors Giant is a natural sport of the popular Conference pear - all the same qualities, but with much larger fruit size.

  £49.00buy

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Doyenne du Comice

  

  Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Fondante d'Automne

  

  An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Glou Morceau

  A traditional 18th century Belgian pear with a notably rich sweet flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
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  Gorham

  A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Humbug

  Humbug is an unusual pear variety, the fruits have distinctive green and yellow stripes.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Invincible

  

  Invincible is a high quality pear which can also cope with difficult conditions.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
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  Jargonelle

  Jargonelle is a sweet early summer pear, and will grow in most situations.
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  Josephine de Malines

  

  A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.

  • Picking season: Very late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
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  Louise Bonne of Jersey

  

  An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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  Merton Pride

  

  One of the best English pears, with a notably juicy buttery flesh.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
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  Moonglow

  

  A high quality early season dessert and culinary pear, very resistant to fireblight.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Obelisk®

  A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Onward

  

  Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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  Packham's Triumph

  Perhaps the best known Australian pear, producing large quantities of small but sweet-flavoured pears.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Santa Claus
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  Sensation

  

  A red-coloured sport of the popular Williams pear, with a similar good flavour.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
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  Williams

  

  Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)
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  Winter Nelis

  

  A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4