Janet Baraclough muttered:

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I'm thinking of buying 12 cordoned pear trees to act as a fruiting border to
our vegetable garden. These are fairly mature, in a double U shape and 1.3m
high and are retailing at (gasp) £79.95 each. It would be a major expense

Boggle :-) Garden centre price or specialist fruit nursery?

Do pears fruit reliably for other gardeners in your area ? They
don't do well in some parts of the UK.

Janet

Suffolk grows wonderful pears... we are on boulder clay and pears like it.
The price was from an online nursery and the only place that supply them, as
far as I could tell, all the 'specialist' nurseries either didn't have them
or seemed too 'busy'.