We take great care in delivering healthy trees to your doorstep. Each order is hand-picked, carefully packaged, and shipped using trusted couriers to ensure safe arrival.
Delivery Times
Standard Delivery (3–5 working days): £6.95
Express Delivery (1–2 working days): £12.95
Free Delivery: On all orders over £100
Packaging
All trees are shipped in eco-friendly recyclable packaging. Roots are securely wrapped to retain moisture during transit, keeping your tree healthy and ready for planting.
Delivery Areas
We currently deliver across the UK mainland. Unfortunately, we cannot deliver to Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands due to plant health regulations.
Order Tracking
Once your order has been dispatched, you will receive a tracking link by email so you can follow your tree’s journey from our nursery to your garden.
Special Notes
If you require delivery on a specific date (e.g., birthday gift, landscaping project), please add a note at checkout and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
To make fruit, most pear trees need to be cross-pollinated with another variety that is in flower at the same time; even self-fertile varieties produce better crops with a partner.
Pollination groups represent flowering periods. A pear tree can cross-pollinate with any tree in its own group or a group next to it on the table. For example, a tree in group B can cross-pollinate with trees in groups A, B, and C – that’s all of them!
Letters are interchangeable with numbers, e.g. Group C = Group 3
Flowering Dates vs Harvest Dates
Your pear tree’s flowering group is not connected with the date when the fruit ripens. For example, Sensation is in pollination group C, but crops before Conference in pollination group A.
But all of their crops will be bigger and better with a pollination partner
If you do not have room for two pear trees, the likelihood is that bees will bring pollen from a neighbour within a few miles who has a compatible pear (which includes ornamental pears). However, it is better to add at least one cordon, in a pot if necessary, as a pollination partner.
Insects (Mainly Bees) are Vital for Pollination
Bees and other insects carry pollen between flowers: even self-fertile trees need them to move their own pollen around their flowers, so an orchard is an ideal place for a beehive, and to encourage wild bees. In exposed, windy locations, or at high altitude above about 800ft, bees find it hard to fly, so it is even more important to provide habitats and windbreaks to help them out; also, it’s best to stick to reliably self-fertile varieties that make the most of limited pollinators.
How close do pear trees need to be to cross-pollinate?
The closer they are, the better, but anything within 500 feet / 150 metres should be fine.
Can apple trees pollinate pear trees?
No, only pear trees can pollinate other pear trees, not apples, crab apples, nor any other fruit species.
Some pear hybrids are publicised as “papples” or “pearples”, which sounds like they are apple-pear crosses, but only their shape is similar. They are in fact crosses between different European and Asian pear species.
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