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Magwitch wrote:

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'.

I have just purchased 2 fan pears from Phil Corbett at
http://cooltemperate.co.uk/index.shtml

Cannot express my admiration for his help enough. Try him, he will give
you advice, and if you hurry you may be just in time to get bare root
trees from him.

Thanks * will give them a call.