pear 'Conference'

pear - fan shaped

• Position: full sun
• Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: April
• Flower colour: pure white
• Other features: edible, yellowish green dessert pears
• Hardiness: fully hardy
• Pollination Group: B - flowering mid season
  
  This 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Pollination Information: This pear belongs to pollination group B, so you will need need to plant one other different variety of pear to guarantee cross pollination, and a subsequent bumper crop. Ideally this should come from the same pollination group, however it is possible to use one from group A or C as well.
  
  

Grown on Quince A rootstock