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Nursery Direct
Common Pear Tree
Pyrus communis
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Common Pear Tree - Pyrus communis
The Common Pear, Pyrus communis, is the European pear in its species form, the tree behind Williams, Beurre Bosc and the other dessert pears. It is a dual-purpose tree, with a sheet of white blossom each spring, an upright to broadly spreading framework and, in time, a crop of small pears in late summer and autumn.
Why the Common Pear
Seasonal Display: Profuse white blossom covers the branches in early spring as the first leaves unfold.
Architectural Form: Upright when young and broadening with age, it suits formal and semi-formal compositions with equal authority.
Productive Yield: Bears edible pears in time, though seedling-grown trees can take many years to start and their fruit varies in size and quality; for a dependable dessert crop, a named variety such as Williams or Beurre Bosc is the surer choice.
Autumn Colour: Glossy green summer foliage turns yellow, often with red tints, before it falls.
Longevity: A long-lived deciduous tree that matures over decades into a substantial, character-laden specimen.
Ideal Applications
Orchard Landscapes: At full species size it suits paddock and acreage orchards better than a suburban kitchen garden, and it sets fruit most heavily where winters are cold.
Country Avenues: Planted in a row along an entry track or boundary, set back from paving where fallen fruit would mark it.
Open-Lawn Specimen: Matures into a broad, dappled shade tree with spring blossom as its feature moment; in frost-free coastal South East Queensland, where winters are too mild, it blossoms sparsely and fruits poorly, if at all.
Heritage Plantings: Suits a farmhouse or heritage garden, where the old species form of the pear belongs with the setting.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (feature/avenue): 6 to 8m
Best Planting Season: Midwinter, while the tree is dormant (June to August); container trees also establish well from autumn
Soil & Drainage: Deep, fertile, well-drained loam; tolerates clay but not waterlogged conditions; a slightly acidic to neutral pH of 6.0 to 7.0 suits it best
Establishment Care: Give a long, slow soak every week or so for the first two years, more often in summer heat, until the roots have spread. Keep the root zone mulched, with the mulch off the trunk, and in winter remove crossing or crowded limbs to build a balanced framework. Seedling-grown trees can carry stiff, sharp spurs on young wood, so wear gloves when pruning and site it back from paths.
Plant Details
Height: 6 to 10m
Width: 4 to 6m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Europe and western Asia
Flower Colour: White
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
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How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







