Pear

Product Description

Position: full sunSoil: fertile, well-drained soilRate of growth: averageFlowering period: AprilFlower colour: pure whiteOther features: edible, yellowish green dessert pearsHardiness: fully hardyThis dessert pear tree is covered with pure white flowers in mid-spring, followed by delicious, long, yellowish green fruits. Broadly columnar in shape it's ideal for an open, sunny site.Though 'Conference' is partially self-fertile, to guarantee a bumper crop of pears plant with another tree from the same flowering group (e.g. 'Super Comice', 'Beurre Hardy' and 'Williams Bon Chrtien' and 'Peradel') Garden care: Pears naturally shed a small quantity of the developing fruits in mid summer. After this has occurred thin out the remaining pears, leaving one pear per cluster. Add a high-nitrogen feed in spring.