- Sub-categories:
- Dessert pears24
- Culinary pears2
Pear trees
We have an extensive range of pear trees and can advise on choosing the best pear trees for your garden or orchard project.
- Pear trees
Benita Rafzas®
Benita Rafzas is an unusual cross between an Asian and European pear.26.95€buy - Pear trees
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Beurre Superfin
Beurre Superfin is a 19th century French pear variety, considered one of the best for flavour and texture.From 24.45€ to 24.45€buy - Pear trees
Black Worcester
The oldest true English pear, 16th century or earlier. Ideal for stewed pears.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Celebration NUVAR®
A modern English pear, best considered as an improved Conference.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Conference
A popular and reliable English pear, Conference is perfectly suited to the English climate.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Glou Morceau
A traditional 18th century Belgian pear with a notably rich sweet flavour.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Invincible
Invincible is a good-flavour pear which can cope with more difficult conditions than most pears.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Josephine de Malines
A classic 19th century winter pear with a high quality flavour.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Packham's Triumph
Perhaps the best known Australian pear, producing large quantities of small but sweet-flavoured pears.24.45€buy - Pear trees
Winter Nelis
A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.24.45€buy
How to choose 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.