Pear Tree Recommendations

[Wesdor]

Thanks Wayne,

I am talking about the Asian Pears. The have the crunch of an apple and taste of a pear. Currently I'm looking at planting 10 - 15 of them so I can have cross pollination.

With any luck I'll have some tasty eating in a few years.

 

[Highbeam]

WayneB, may I ask a related question?

I have planted local nursery bought bare root pear trees. One bartlett and one Bosc. The nursery workers specificied two varieties and that the trees need to be closer than a city block apart. They are actually about 90 feet apart.

Will I be okay in the pollenation department?

 

[kossetx]

Being in Georgia I'd check to see if you have enough chill hours for bartlet pears. There is a southern bartlet but I don't think they're the same. Moonglow and ayers are both good eating pears.

 

[Tractors4u]

I figured out my pear. I was in a meeting today and there was a fruit tray. I grab a pear and the label on it had D'Anjou. I found out that there is a pear called a Green Anjou. It appears that it is a northwestern variety though.

 

[ToadHill]

Wesdor: Asian pears have a very upright growth habit, and as they get older you will need a ladder to pick them, you won't have success trying to train them like a apple tree.

 

[Jim-Satoh]

We like our Moonglow .----I borrowed this line sorry, but I agree this is the largest pear that I have seen for many many years. Small twigs will not hold these pears, and please never top them, they will get bushy. My moonglows would come off a golden yellow or brown around october or Nov.----You can eat them or can with them.----Jim

 

[moeh1]

Here is a place I've ordered from before. It has some nicer descriptions of some Northern cold weather species. Work in progress, bu I'm staggering my peach, cherry, apple, and pear tree varieties so I could get some kind of fruit from mid summer through late fall.
pears

 

[forgeblast]

StarkBros.com - Stark® Honeysweet Pear Dwarf - Catalog # 9485

I have bought from stark brothers, and have been happy with what they offered.
i have the bartlett
Honeysweet
bosc
and a japanese/american cross. I cant rememeber the name.
On top of that i have some nut trees, almonds, and hazlenuts, paw paws and a buch of apple trees. The blue berry bushes are coming this year.