Pears

Perhaps more than any other fruit, pears benefit from being grown in trained forms.

• Beth

  

  An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Beurre Bosc

  

  A traditional French pear with buttery melting flesh.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 5

• Beurre Hardy

  

  A classic French pear with a very good flavour, but grows best in a warm sheltered situation.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Concorde

  

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

  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Conference

  

  A popular and reliable English pear, Conference is perfectly suited to the English climate.

  • 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.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

• Durondeau

  

  An attractive Belgian pear from the early 19th century, with a good sweet flavour.

  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3

• Louise Bonne

  

  Louise Bonne of Jersey is an attractive red-flushed French pear variety with sweet melting flesh.

  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 2
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

• Williams

  

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

  • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 3
  • Awards: RHS AGM (former)