PEAR FERTILITY IMPROVED

The original Pear Fertility Pear was bred by the famous Thomas Rivers Nursery of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire around 1875. The ‘Improved Fertility Pear’ is self fertile and originated in Essex in the 1900’s it retains a number of the characteristics of the original including a greenish yellow skin with some russeting, heavy cropping and good disease resistance. Flesh though juicy is not strongly flavoured but pleasingly aromatic.

Our Pear Fertility bare rooted trees are lifted at the start of the bare root season in November, when the pear trees become dormant, and made available through to March the following year. This period is the ideal time for economical planting. You will however have to wait a year to pick your crop as bare root trees cannot be picked in their first year. For all year round planting why not choose from our selection of container grown pear trees. They do cost more but are older, more established and ready to crop.