• See also:
• Asian pear trees3
• Cooking pear trees3
• Perry pear trees2

Dessert pear trees

Our range of organic dessert pears are ideal for eating fresh, after ripening for a few days in a fruit bowl.

• Beurre d'Anjou

  

  Beurre d'Anjou is a highly-regarded traditional French dessert pear with melting sweet flesh.

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

• Beurre Hardy

  

  One of the classic French pears, with a very good flavour, but needs a warm sheltered situation.

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

• Beurre Lebrun

  

  Beurre Lebrun is a high-quality French mid-season dessert pear, with a fine sweet flesh.

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

• 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

• Clapp's Favorite

  

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

  25.00€buy

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

• Clement's

  

  Clement's pear is a high quality French dessert pear, very similar to Williams / Bartlett.

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

• Concorde

  

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

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4

• Conference

  

  Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to temperate climates in north-west Europe.

  24.25€buyBest seller

  • Picking season: Mid
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Cornelie

  

  Cornelie is a traditional sweet buttery French dessert pear.

  From 24.25€ to 25.00€buy

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

• Deveci

  

  Deveci is a large late-season eating pear, originating from Turkey.

  • Picking season: Very late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Doyenne du Comice

  

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

  25.45€buy

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

• Fondante d'Automne

  

  An old fashioned French pear with a notably sweet flavour.

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

• Legipont

  

  Legipont or Fondante de Charneu is a traditional Belgian dessert pear, ripening in mid-September.

  25.00€buy

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

• Louise Bonne

  

  Louise Bonne is a pretty red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.

  24.25€buyBest seller

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

• Marguerite Marillat

  

  Marguerite Marillat is a traditional pear raised by Mr Marillat in the 1870s and named after his wife.

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

• Morettini

  

  An early season dessert pear with a good flavour.

  25.45€buy

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

• Packham's Triumph

  

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

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

• Precoce Henin

  

  Precoce Henin is an early-season eating pear with a rich sweet melting flesh.

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• President Heron

  

  President Heron is a high-quality French dessert pear, a good choice for the home orchard.

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

• Red Williams

  

  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

• Saint Jean d'Hardelot

  One of the earliest-ripening pears, you should be able to pick them at the end of June.

  • Picking season: Very early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Shipova

  

  Shipova is a rare pear / whitebeam hybrid, producing small pear-like edible fruits.

  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4

• Stark Crimson

  

  A red form of Clapp's Favorite, also known as Kalle. The pears have a sweet flavor, and ripen in late summer.

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

• Sucree de Montlucon

  

  Sucree de Montlucon is an exceptionally sweet dessert pear.

  • Picking season: Very late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2

• Trapezitsa

  A very early-season pear for eating fresh, with good resistance to scab.

  • Picking season: Very early
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Triompe de Vienne

  

  Triomphe de Vienne is a pretty dessert pear, with juicy melting sweet flesh.

  25.00€buy

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

• Williams

  

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

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3