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 so
I was wondering if there are any cheaper ones available.

I know I could get the trees and do it myself for less than a quarter of the
price, but if it would take 15 years before they are looking good, I very
much doubt I'll be able to stagger down the garden by then to appreciate
them

Anyone know of a cheaper source for these or could give me some good news
about how long it'd take to 'cordon' my own from scratch?

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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.

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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
so
I was wondering if there are any cheaper ones available.

I know I could get the trees and do it myself for less than a quarter of
the
price, but if it would take 15 years before they are looking good, I very
much doubt I'll be able to stagger down the garden by then to appreciate
them

Anyone know of a cheaper source for these or could give me some good news
about how long it'd take to 'cordon' my own from scratch?

Janet Baraclough muttered:

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from Magwitch contains these words:

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'.

Janet Baraclough muttered:

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from Magwitch contains these words:

Janet Baraclough muttered:

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from Magwitch contains these words:

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.

Lucky you..

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'.

http://www.readsnursery.co.uk/ website says, potgrown cordon pears
£16.50, espalier £28, loads of varieties. Reads have a very good
reputation.

Janet.

Janet

Yep, tried them and they sold out of them in December... a somewhat taciturn
telephone manner as well * I was offput.

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from Magwitch contains these words:


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.