The highlights
- Sweet, juicy pears, wonderful blossom
- A complete pear orchard from just one tree
- Eat fresh, poach in wine or bake with honey
- Harvest your pears from late August
Description
- While many of us would love a giant, sprawling orchard, the reality is that most of us don’t have the room – that’s where family fruit trees come in!
- These brilliant trees comprise multiple (typically three) varieties grafted onto a single rootstock (stem) to give you one tree that produces multiple different varieties. Pretty nifty, right?
- Your family pear tree will consist of three varieties chosen from the selection below:
- ‘Conference’ is widely-regarded as the nation’s favourite pear, boasting sumptuous fruits that are just as good baked in a crumble as they are eaten fresh – plus, it’s got an RHS award!
- ‘Concorde’ is another RHS award-winning variety, reliably yielding excellent pears with a buttery, melt-in-your-mouth texture and hints of vanilla when it comes to flavour
- ‘Doyenné Du Comice’ proudly flies the flag for French pears, with its bold, aromatic flavour and wonderfully soft flesh. Use them to make a rich tarte tatin or, alternatively, poach them in spiced red wine – and yep, you guessed it, it’s another RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) winner!
- ‘Williams’ Bon Chrétien’ is (without meaning to flog a dead pear) an RHS-acclaimed variety that dates back over 250 years, producing pears with the iconic ‘pear’ flavour, perfect for sneaking in your child’s lunchbox or scoffing straight from the tree…
- Your varieties will be chosen to give you successive pear cropping, extending your harvest season from late summer all the way into the heart of autumn
- The pear tree is recognised by the Royal Horticultural Society as one of its Plants for Pollinators, meaning your family tree will attract more buzzing friends to your garden!
- Your family tree’s varieties will be able to pollinate one another meaning you don’t need to worry about planting a pollinating partner
- Our trees are usually between 18 and 36 months old at the time of dispatch
