Dessert pear trees

Dessert pears, with their characteristic sweet buttery flesh, are one of the best fruits to grow in the home orchard.

Beth
An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
£39.75 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Beurre Hardy
A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.
£47.95 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Beurre Superfin
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)
Celebration NUVAR®
Nuvar Celeberation is a large modern dessert pear.
£39.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Christie
Christie is a traditional Scottish dessert pear.
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Clapps Favourite
An attractive red-flushed early-season pear from the USA.
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Concorde
A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
£38.25 - £62.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Conference
Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
£38.25 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Conference Moors Giant®
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)
Doyenne du Comice
Doyenne du Comice is arguably the best flavoured of all pears.
£39.75 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (current)
Fondante d'Automne
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
Glou Morceau
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
Gorham
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)
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
Invincible
Invincible is a high quality pear which can also cope with difficult conditions.
£40.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
Jargonelle
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
Josephine de Malines
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)
Louise Bonne of Jersey
An attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.
£47.50 - £57.75buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 2
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Merton Pride
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
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
Obelisk®
A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.
£40.50 - £59.00buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
Onward
Onward is high quality dessert pear, related to Doyenne du Comice but easier to grow.
£38.25 - £63.50buy
- Picking season: Mid
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Packham's Triumph
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
Pitmaston Duchess
Pitmaston Duchess is a traditional English dual-purpose, noted for the very large size of its pears.
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Santa Claus
As the name suggests, Santa Claus is a late ripening dessert pear which keeps until Christmas.
- Picking season: Very late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4
Sensation
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
Williams
Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.
£38.25 - £60.50buy
- Picking season: Early
- Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
- Flowering group: 3
- Awards: RHS AGM (former)
Winter Nelis
A late-season dessert pear from Belgium, with an excellent sweet flavour.
£57.75buy
- Picking season: Late
- Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
- Flowering group: 4