Pre Order for winter 2025/26 from 1st May 2025
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Nursery Manager's recommended varieties
Early season eating pear trees
The season for early eating pears runs from mid August to mid September. In warm summers ripening can occur very rapidly and you need to be vigilant and pick the fruit before they are over-ripe and start to drop.
1
Bambinella
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An unusual tiny round summer pear with crisp, very juicy and sweet flesh similar to an asian pear.
2
Beth
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One of the earliest pears to ripen. It has good flavour and is a reliable cropper.
3
Jargonelle
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A very old early dessert pear. A high quality sweet juicy pear.
4
Sensation
Graft to order
An attractive red skinned sport of Williams Bon Chretien.
5
Williams Bon Chretien
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Probably the best known and most widely grown pear throughout the world.