Your Pineapple Pear Tree is an all-around great choice for a pear tree that is pretty, provides a terrific harvest, and is easy to grow. It can stand up to a lot of challenges and still put on a good show. Pineapple Pear not only creates a magical spring display of delicate, white flowers from early to late spring but maintains a vibrant, green appearance throughout the summer months.

When July rolls around, your Pineapple Pear tree begins to offer up some of its sumptuous fruit, providing you with a harvest from July to August. Each large pear possess’ green coloring with russet overtones and a slight, scarlet blush. Pineapple Pear is a hard pear, with crisp flesh that is well suited to preserves, pear butter or tasty right off the tree. The flesh has a grainier nature than some, with a flavor that has been described as tangy with hints of pineapple and apple. It’s a unique pear to be sure, and one that will certainly have you planting more trees in order to increase your yield.

Some people use pear trees for ornamental purposes only, but even though Pineapple Pear is considered self-fruitful, you will want to have two varieties to encourage an optimal harvest.

If you’re a pear-lover, or just think pear trees are pretty, Pineapple Pear is a wonderful choice for both beginning gardener and expert. It provides the ornamental features of a pear tree in a hardy variety of tree (that some say is so easy to care for that it’s hard to kill), with a fruit that is unique among pears in flavor. Try a Pineapple Pear tree today and you’ll soon see why it’s such a popular variety.

Originally found in a neglected orchard in Mississippi – not a state associated with pear growing – these hardy trees are resistant to fire-blight and other diseases that so often plague pears in warm winter areas.

The medium sized, yellow fruit has a lively green tint and occasional red blush. The pears are beautiful dangling amid the sturdy upright branches of a mature Warren tree.

If you’ve never grown a pear tree before, give Warren Pear a try. This tree forgives easily and isn’t a diva.

If you’re a pear lover, than you’ll adore the sweet taste and buttery texture of this savory pear variety just as much as Oprah and Martha!

D’Anjou pear will be a tantalizing treat for your tastebuds…but not when picked directly from your tree. The secret to this delectable winter pear is to pick it green and place it in storage.

It’s with time that the superb nature of your pear is brought to fruition with a sweet, brisk flavor unlike any other pear you’ll ever taste.

The versatility of your pear will also astound you. Its great picked directly from the tree for use in various dishes before it is fully ripe. It also stores exceedingly well, making it a great choice as a gift for friends and neighbors, or just as a winter treat for your table.

D’Anjou Pear produces a large pear with vibrant, light-green color at its September harvest. Considered a high-producer, you’ll enjoy having plenty of delicious pears to share when the fall harvest begins.

According to old folklore, having a pear tree in your yard is way to draw good luck to your home, and the Kieffer will certainly provide a lucky bounty of fruit for you to enjoy. You can expect that bounty to arrive in late September and continue into October.

There’s nothing quite like the sight of the yellow-green fruit dangling from the tree, ready to be picked and enjoyed.

The flesh is white with a crisp, coarse texture and is delicious eaten right off the tree. Juicy and sweet, the Kieffer Pear is especially prized for its uses in a variety of culinary dishes, including preserves and sauces.

The Kieffer Pear is certainly a sumptuous treat, but also an attractive tree for your yard. Spring brings fragrant flowers in delicate tiny white blossoms, an elegant exhibition of floral perfection for your landscape. Bees and butterflies will love it!

The Orient pear ripens in August, having the reputation of being the heaviest bearing pear tree. Pears have shiny deep green leaves offering summer shade and are covered with white blossoms in the spring.

Your Seckel Pear Tree is beloved for its incredible fruits that are so sumptuously sweet that they’re sometimes referred to as “sugar pears” or “candy pears”. These honeyed beauties begin their lives in early spring when delicate, white blossoms welcome the new season and will “wow” your neighbors with their pristine artistry.

As spring turns to summer, adorable little pears form, beginning their development as a vibrant green. The pears soon transform to green/golden tones with russet highlights, and eventually take on a lovely, scarlet blush by mid-September. Each diminutive fruit is as alluring as it is delicious.

Seckel Pears may be small, but they make up for their small stature with their incredible flavor. Sweet and luscious, this small pear is often thought of as a dessert pear. Enjoyed fresh, canned or in a variety of culinary delights, Seckel Pears are beloved for their incredibly sweet flavor with delicate, spicy undertones. The fine-grained flesh is an appealing, creamy white with just a hint of sunny-yellow.

These rugged trees were developed at the University of Minnesota, so are quite cold hardy. Summercrisp Pear trees enjoy a well-deserved reputation for reliable annual production. It’s rare to have issues with late winter frosts with this variety.

Summercrisp’s decorative nature is a bonus, too. Use it as an “edible ornamental” tree in Edible Landscaping design plans. It even requires less space due to its slightly smaller stature.

Even the branch structure is superior. Vertical branches rarely need pruning, and that’s a huge benefit for beginning gardeners.

The south finally has a pear that lives up to its northern brother with aplomb. The Southern Bartlett (Pyrus ‘Southern Bartlett’) is a beautiful tree that bears delicious fruit despite the heat and humidity. The extra big fruit is drip-down-your-chin juicy. The flesh isn’t hard or mealy either, considering how big the pears are. It is super soft and tender, almost melt-in-your-mouth.

Besides the fruit, it is a fantastic landscape tree with a sweet spreading shape. In places where the seasons are more often marked by the number of tourists coming and going than by the weather changes, Southern Bartlett also offers nice fall leaf color change by turning gorgeously orange about the same time the pumpkin lattes start popping up in the coffee shops.

These early fruiters are known for big fruit and plenty of it! They ripen August through September and pollinate with just about any other pear tree you have.

These popular Asian Pear trees produce an abundance of juicy, sweet fruit that keeps for a long time after harvest. With beautiful yellow skin, and translucent flesh, 20th Century is a wonderful addition to your Edible Landscape.

It’s a reliable producer that is self-pollinating. It also works well as a pollinator for other varieties. Of course, as with so many other “self-fruitful” plants, you will get a much larger fruit set with a pollination partner nearby, such as Shineiki.

The Fan-Stil Pear fruit is remarkable, and is one of the most fire-blight resistant pear tree. It’s a smaller tree, so it won’t take up your entire yard!

How do Fan-Stil pears compare to other varieties? These are medium-sized and bright yellow when ripe. They can often blush to red in the right sunny conditions. Their flesh is juicy, crisp, and sweet. This white meat makes the perfect midday snack or as a delightful dessert when poached. You can even add these to your pecan and goat cheese salad for a sweetness that will light up your taste buds.

The Fan-Stil Pear tree grows to the perfect height to make harvest easy with just a fruit picker or ladder in early fall. This variety shows a remarkable resistance to fire blight and requires a lower chill time of about 500 hours. The Fan-Stil Pear grows upright and evenly with shiny deep green leaves.

While not the largest pear variety, this self-fruitful variety produces a bountiful harvest year after year! Many commercial growers have transitioned to the Fan-Stil Pear and have stuck to this tree species since it bears heavily and is easy to care for. This is especially true in the Southern Seaboard area.

And, like other pear trees, this one blooms with delightful white blossoms with a bright floral scent. Pollinators love these fun and fluffy blooms.

The beautiful, orb-shaped fruit is held all through the canopy. These are good-looking trees with an upright, spreading growth habit. Hosui is a vigorous variety, and like all fruit trees, can be easily held to any size with summer pruning.

Asian Pears are heavy and the fruit set is quite abundant. You’ll need to thin the blossoms in spring and thin the developing fruit, as well. That way, your mature harvest will reach full-size. The branches should easily support the weight of a properly thinned crop.

You’ll be able to enjoy your whole harvest, as the fruit keeps well for several months in storage. Hosui is an excellent Asian Pear to add to your edible landscape.

Watch for the skin to turn golden-brown with a russet overlay. You’ll know they are getting ripe. Don’t let the birds peck at too many of them, before you go out and harvest your share. It’s always a race with the birds, isn’t it?

Chojuro Pear trees have a great look, as well. The summer foliage is lush and luxurious. You’ll be pleased to have the privacy screening!

In fall, the foliage deepens to an outstanding red. This variety can truly be called an ornamental edible.

You’ll enjoy the graceful spread of the branches, and the slightly flattened pears that develop in abundance all through the canopy. Pair it with another Asian Pear or Bartlett Pear as a pollination partner. You’ll enjoy a huge harvest in a few years.

Chojuro Pears are medium to large-sized, and they are packed with juice. They’ll be heavy!

Fair warning, you’ll want to thin the fruit set early in the season. This will help ensure the mature fruit reaches a good size, without breaking the branch.

Once harvest is done, and you’ve had your fill of the tree-ripe fruit, store it for months and months! Chojuro is an excellent keeper.

They are incomparable as a fresh eating pear. The exceptional flesh is juicy, sweet and redolent of the world-famous Bartlett.

And these deciduous trees have several ornamental features.You’ll thrill each spring to the profuse floral display of white blooms.

Young, bell-shaped fruit develops with dark red stripes, and brightens to clear red as they mature. They are beautiful to look at, and their fruity-floral aroma adds to the enjoyment. Eat them fresh, or can them for use later in the year.

Best of all, this vigorous tree is hardy and long-lived. Beginners should take a good look at this variety.

These gorgeous pears taste best fresh from your backyard orchard. Order your Red Bartlett Pear trees today.