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Family Pear Tree (Conference, Comice and Williams)
Enjoy three different pear varieties from one tree with this unusual Family Pear Tree, combining Conference, Doyenné du Comice and Williams. Each variety is grafted onto the same rootstock, giving you three different flavours and a longer fruiting season without needing space for three separate pear trees. The varieties also have compatible flowering periods, helping to pollinate one another.
Williams starts the season from around mid to late September, producing sweet, juicy pears with soft, melting flesh and a distinctive musky flavour. Conference follows from October into November with its familiar long, narrow pears and sweet, fine-textured, juicy flesh. Doyenné du Comice finishes the season from November into December and is particularly prized as a dessert pear for its rich, perfumed flavour and exceptionally juicy, buttery, melting flesh.
Together, the three varieties give you an extended pear season from September through to December, with each crop offering a noticeably different flavour and texture. Pears can be picked while still firm and allowed to finish ripening off the tree, helping to spread the eating season even further.
All Family Pear Trees are supplied as bush-trained trees in 12L containers on Quince A rootstock, which means they will grow to around 3.6 metres in height.
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Planting In The Corner Of A Garden
Air and light is reduced in this location which could promote fungus and bacterial issues. Corners of houses and fences can also suffer leaching issues so we advise against it.
Choosing the type of Pear tree rootstock:
Those in the horticultural business love their technical lingo, so here is something to help you decipher Gobbeldy Gook from the Green Fingered Brigade. Each rootstock description is made up of several terms from one or more of the following:
Generic : A standard or new rootstock growing 3-4m on average. 5-9L pot, 2-3 years old.
Cordon : Columnar shape and short branches. Ideal for space saving and quick fruiting (possibly first year)
Quince C : Will reach approx. 2.5 metres. Fruits quicker than Quince A
Quince Eline : Almost identical to Quince C but but has superior cold hardiness.
Quince A : Will reach approx. 3.5 metres. Fruits quicker than Kirchensellar and is supplied at 120-180cm tall.
Quince A + : Will reach approx. 3.5 metres but is supplied at 180-240cm tall.
Kirchensaller: Will reach approx. 6.0+ metres.
Half Standard: Trunk clear of branches for around 1 metre and is traditional tree shaped. Good for gardens e.g. easy mowing and companion planting underneath.
Straight Lead: Much more of a clear trunk than a Half Standard, usually around 2.0 + metres.
Bush : Pruned so that branches start around 45cm from the ground.
Maiden : 1-2 years old and unpruned, ideal for shaping into Fan, Espalier etc
Family Pear Tree. Three different varieties of pear on one tree that pollinate each other. Click the link to see current Family Pear Trees in stock.
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