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Fruit - Pears, Quince & Medlar
Pears are a good choice for an Irish orchard. Like apples, they appreciate our cool summers, but don't forget, most require a suitable pollination partner (unlike the less familiar, self-fertile members of the pear family: quince and medlar). All of them are fantastic choices for growing fruit for eating fresh, cooking, and even making perry!
Bareroot stone fruit trees | December to March
Most of our pear, quince, and medlar trees are sold in bareroot form from December to March. You can learn more about the differences between bareroot and potted plants and about getting started growing fruit in our advice section.
Potted stone fruit trees | all year round
Potted pear, quince, and medlar trees are available at different times throughout the rest of the year, but the best selection, and the best time to plant, is in spring (April to June). Outside of these times our selection is more limited.
Grow It Bio™ Fruit | Organic Plant Food
€0.00
Grow It Bio™ Fruit | Organic Plant Food Grow It Bio™ Fruit is a certified Organic Fruit feed that is rich in nutrients, trace elements and vitamins. This feed promotes microbiological life, improves soil structure and enriches the soil, giving healthier plants and higher yields. A family owned Irish company. BenefitsRich in trace elementsFeeds...
Neudorff Prune & Seal
Neudorff Prune & Seal
€14.00
Neudorff Prune & Seal Seals exposed wood after pruning for quick wound recovery; This physical barrier protects against ingress of harmful pests and disease; Suitable for all fruit and ornamental trees; Ready to use brush pack; Suitable for organic gardening. Apply evenly over the cut surface so that a thin covering is achieved, ensur...
Neudorff Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer
€10.00
Neudorff Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer Approved by Organic Farmers & Growers Association, the unique formulation of Pyrol Bug & Larvae Killer controls a wide range of harmful pests including aphids, whitefly, greenfly, spider mites, mealy bugs, scale insects, leaf hoppers and thrips. It also acts on the eggs and larvae of the insects t...
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract
€8.00
Ocean Leaves Liquid Seaweed Extract Ocean Leaves® Liquid Seaweed Extract is made using cold-processed, hand-harvested Irish seaweed. It can be used on fruit, vegetables, flowers, shrubs, trees and lawns. Induces yield increases, enhances plant health & plant quality Increases plant tolerance to, and recovery from abiotic stresses Enhances...
Ocean Leaves, Irish Liquid Seaweed Extract with IRON
€13.50
Ocean Leaves, Irish Liquid Seaweed Extract with IRON Ocean Leaves® Liquid Seaweed Extract + Iron is made using cold-processed, hand-harvested Irish seaweed and has been fortified with Iron (2% EDTA Chelated Iron (fe) w/w). It can be used on fruit, vegetables, flowers and lawns, and is recommended for ericaceous and acid-loving plants. It is used...
Medlar Brabant giant
Medlar Brabant giant
€20.00
Medlar Brabant Giant Medlar (Mespilus) Brabant Giant is a variety with extra large fruit. Popular in classical and Elizabethan times, medlars are once again coming back into favour. Medlar Brabants Giant is a highly ornamental tree with twisting branches and large, deep green leaves, colouring well in autumn; best grown as a standard or half -s...
Medlar Dutch Monstrous
Medlar Dutch Monstrous
€25.00
Medlar Dutch Monstrous With the largest fruit of all medlars, Mespilus germanica Monstrous is a tree with a charmingly erratic, crooked, spreading habit of growth, like trees in Chinese or Japanese paintings. The leaves are long, rather leathery and mid-green, turning yellow in autumn. In June, the, tree bears beautiful blossom, like that of a d...
Medlar Nottingham
Medlar Nottingham
€25.00
Medlar Nottingham Medlar Nottingham is a selected variety with larger leaves, flowers and fruits. Less thorny than the species. Popular in classical and Elizabethan times, medlars are once again coming back into favour. Medlar Nottingham is a particularly good cultivar, not just for its fruit, which is particularly well-flavoured, if rather sma...
Pear Beth
Pear Beth
€18.00
Pear Beth An early to mid-season dessert pear, Pyrus communis Beth is a cross between pears Beurre Surfin and William’s Bon Chretien. The fruit is small with a rather irregular conical shape, with yellowish-green skin, sometimes tinged pink on the side facing the sun. The white flesh is sweet, melting and juicy, with a wonderful rich flavour, re...
Pear Beurre Hardy
Pear Beurre Hardy
€18.00
Pear Beurre Hardy A really delicious, old French, late dessert pear, Pyrus communis Beurre Hardy is a hardy, vigorous, deciduous tree with a rounded crown , which does best in drier parts of south-east Ireland in a warm, fertile, sheltered site, and whose leaves turn a characteristic rusty-red in autumn. The fruit is large and rounded, with a ye...
Pear Black Worcester
Pear Black Worcester
€18.00
Pear Black Worcester A late season culinary pear, Pyrus communis Black Worcester is a very ancient pear, possibly brought to Worcestershire by the Romans. The fruit is large and oval, the green skin darkening to mahogany, and it’s a very good keeper. The hard, yellowish, slightly gritty flesh softens and sweetens in store after the New Year, tho...
Pear Catillac
Pear Catillac
€18.00
Pear Catillac An ancient variety of late culinary pear from 17th century Versailles, Pear Catillac has stood the test of time for its lovely flavour and very long keeping qualities. Large, hard, greenish-yellow fruit with a red flush; slightly coarse-textured flesh turns pink with a gorgeous flavour after the very long, slow cooking it requires....
Pear Concorde
Pear Concorde
€18.00
Pear Concorde One of the best dessert pears for Irish conditions, dessert Pear Concorde has the best characteristics of its parents, having the hardiness and reliability of Pear Conference and much of the succulence and delicious flavour of Pear Doyenne du Comice. The fruit is large, yellowish-brown with some russeting and sometimes a pink flus...
Pear Conference
Pear Conference
€18.00
Pear Conference The most reliable pear for Irish gardens, giving heavy, regular crops even in less than perfect conditions. A mid- to late-season dessert pear, ready in late October. The fruit is long, juicy and sweet, with russeted skin, firm flesh and a good flavour. Also very good as a cooking pear. Pick slightly under-ripe, store in a cool, ...
Pear Doyenné du Comice
Pear Doyenné du Comice
€18.00
Pear Doyenné du Comice An excellent dessert pear with a very rich flavour; the taste is sweet and very full, everything you want from a pear. Excellent quality, but moderate crops, although older trees crop more reliably, however it does require a warm and sunny site to do well. Pear Doyenné du Comice was bred in France at the Garden of Comice H...
Pear Durondeau
Pear Durondeau
€18.00
Pear Durondeau An attractive dessert pear-tree from spring to autumn, Pyrus communis Durondeau also has a compact habit, making it a good choice for smaller gardens. It’s a regular and heavy cropper, and the leaves turn brilliant red in autumn. The blossom has good resistance to frost, and the tree has some resistance to scab. The fruits are med...
Pear Emile d'Heyst
Pear Emile d'Heyst
€22.00
Pear Emile d’Heyst A very reliable dessert pear for our climate, bred in Belgium, Pyrus communis Emile d'Heyst is a tree with a spreading habit, not very vigorous. The fruit is small to medium-sized, with a yellowish-green skin with some russeting. The white flesh is firm, creamy and fairly juicy, with a sweet, sub-acid flavour. This pear is a h...
Pear Gin
Pear Gin
€18.00
Perry Pear Gin A very old perry variety from Gloucestershire, Pyrus communis Gin is used for high quality, mild-bittersharp perry with a flowery aroma and medium acid and tannin levels. Forming a slightly vigorous, spreading, spur-bearing tree, it’s a good cropper, though as it has a biennial tendency, it’s advisable to thin pears early. Perry p...
Pear Gorham
Pear Gorham
€18.00
Pear Gorham Bred in America from Pears William and Joséphine de Malines, dual-purpose Pear Gorham is hardier and more disease-resistant than its illustrious parents, but in Ireland is best trained on a warm wall. The fruit is medium-sized to large, conical, rather than pear-shaped, and yellow with big patches of russet; the flesh is juicy, melti...
Pear Williams' Bon Chrétien
Pear Williams' Bon Chrétien
€18.00
Pear Williams’ Bon Chrétien A seedling found in a Berkshire garden in the 1760s, dual-purpose Pear Williams’ Bon Chrétien, called Bartlett in America, is now grown all over the world – and is the pear most often found in tins! Large, conical fruit, golden-yellow with brown speckles, sometimes flushed red; the flesh is sweet, luscious and juicy w...