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Josephine Pear
Pyrus communis ‘Josephine’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 45Ltypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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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.
Josephine Pear - Pyrus communis ‘Josephine’
Raised in Belgium and picked late in the season, Josephine has sweet, perfumed flesh that softens to a smooth, buttery texture once ripe. Pyrus communis ‘Josephine’ suits kitchen gardens and productive estates that want fruit in store after the summer pears are gone.
Why Josephine Pear
Fruit quality: Fine-grained and richly flavoured, a true dessert pear.
Keeping quality: The fruit holds for weeks in cool storage and ripens a few at a time, well into winter.
Ornamental value: White blossom dresses the branches in spring, followed by a clean green summer canopy.
Pollination: Sets its fullest crop with a second European pear in flower at the same time, such as Beurre Bosc.
Ideal Applications
Estate and kitchen gardens: Suits productive gardens planted for flavour first, where the household eats what it grows.
Late-season harvest: Comes in after Williams and the other early pears have finished, so a mixed orchard keeps producing into late autumn.
Courtyard planting: Its moderate size suits a large courtyard bed, set back from the paving so fallen fruit stays off the stone.
Tableland and highland gardens: Crops most fully where winters are cold enough to satisfy its chilling requirement, as on the Granite Belt and in the Southern Highlands; closer to the coast the harvest thins, to a light crop around Sydney and a scant one, or none, in frost-free South East Queensland.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 6m
Best Planting Season: Through winter while dormant, or in autumn or early spring
Soil & Drainage: Deep, fertile loam that drains well; tolerates moderately heavy soils but dislikes waterlogging
Establishment Care: Water well through the first two years, especially in dry spells, so the roots go deep. Mulch the root zone with compost or bark, kept off the trunk, and prune lightly in winter to keep the framework open.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 6m
Width: 3 to 4m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Europe and western Asia; cultivar raised in Belgium
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
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
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.







