Pear 'Little Conference' GYO Fruit Tree

Grow super-juicy fruits from your own home - even without a garden!
Just £19.99
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Key Features

  • Britain's best-loved and most recognised Pear fruit tree variety, now in a more compact size!
  • Easy to grow for fresh, juicy pears in September and October, without needing much space
  • On a dwarfing rootstock, so will not get to more than 1.5m in 5 years when in a pot, making picking easy
  • Self-fertile, so no pollinators needed for good crops. Grows in most soils and locations - a versatile fruit tree
  • Supplied as an established plant in a 4.5L pot, to plant straight out.
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Description

Never has there been a better time to grow your own and reap the benefits of producing healthy food, fresh from the ground. Making use of home gardens has always been a sensible thing to do, but now more than ever with genetic modification, produce picked and eaten from your own plot has never been a better idea!

Identified in a Belgian fruit farm as being a dwarfing sport, 'Little Conference' was discarded by the commercial growers because it was too dwarfing for their use. However, it grows normal sized fruits and by grafting onto medium vigour stock we have ensured it stays robust through growth.

This produces a large crop of fruits with clear white flesh, ready to pick each September. The long, tapering fruits are packed with an irresistible sweetness and lip-smacking juice that will drip from your chin when you bite into a ripe one!

Because of its outstanding flavour, it remains the most popular pear grown in Britain by a long measure and this patio pear is a really good variety and dead easy for any gardener who is starting out in growing patio fruit. 'Little Conference' is largely self fertile and will be supplied on a dwarfing rootstock.

Supplied as an established tree in a 4.5L pot, ready to plant out.

Top Tips
  • Plant patio fruit trees in containers 45-50cm (18-20in) in diameter, holding at least 30 litres of good quality compost such as John Innes No.3. Alternatively plant them in any well-drained soil in a sheltered sunny position.
Care Information
  • Plant fruit trees at their original soil level, firm them into the ground and water well.
  • Fruit trees grown in pots will need watering and feeding more regularly than those planted in the ground.
  • To avoid the roots becoming pot bound, re-pot every year or alternate years after leaves have fallen in autumn.
  • Once in its final pot, a plant can be root-pruned every other year with 30 per cent of the compost refreshed. In between, replace the top couple of inches of compost.
  • A good mulch will help to retain water and therefore reduce the need to water as frequently, and will prevent weeds from competing
  • Your pear tree will not need drastic pruning, just remove any crossing or damaged branches. Any lower branches can be removed if you want to give you a clear trunk. Otherwise in subsequent seasons cut back any strongly growing branches by one third to promote the formation of fruiting spurs.


Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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2. Should any hardy plant fail to thrive thereafter, we'll replace free of charge - you just pay the P&P
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