Pyrus Conference
These are probably the easiest of the pears to grow, giving regular, heavy crops of russet/green medium sized fruit. They can be used as either sweet and juicy eaters or cooking pears. By the way we have a great stewed pear recipe on our Ashridge Trees Blog - do subscribe if you would like to be updated on new posts.
Conference pear trees are suitable for all trained formsbush, cordon, espalier, fan, half-standard and step over. Almost as good, a Conference pear is self-fertile and fruits without a pollinator. For more greater yields however and for more information on pear pollination in general please take a look at our Guide to Fruit Tree Pollination
For its part it is an excellent pollinator for a number of pears. Conference pears are best planted in moist, well-drained, fertile soil and in a sunny site, however they are much tougher than most pears, and so will grow in semi shade and can be used on walls that do not get sunlight all day.
Use in September.
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