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Nursery Direct
Williams Pear
Pyrus communis ‘Williams’
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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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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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.
Williams Pear - Pyrus communis ‘Williams’
Most of the pears canned in Australia are Williams (Pyrus communis ‘Williams’), and it is an equally fine fresh eater. Its thin green skin turns golden yellow as the fruit ripens, over sweet, juicy, musky flesh.
Why Williams Pear
Premium fruit production: Yields large, sweet, aromatic pears in heavy, regular crops where the winter chill suits it.
Early harvest: The first of the main pears to ripen, picked in late summer ahead of Beurre Bosc and Corella.
Blossom: Clusters of white flowers cover the tree for a short spell each spring.
Fruit set: Partly self-fertile, and crops more heavily with a partner such as Packham's Triumph or Beurre Bosc nearby.
Proven variety: A benchmark cultivar with a long record of performance across temperate climates worldwide.
Ideal Applications
Home and estate orchards: Often the first pear planted in a new orchard, with later varieties added around it to stretch the harvest.
Preserving gardens: The variety to plant for bottling, poaching and jam, where a dependable crop is the point.
Avenue and structured planting: Suited to formal rows or allées within larger properties and acreage projects.
Cold-winter districts: Performs most strongly on highland and inland properties with a genuine winter chill; around coastal Sydney the crop is light and irregular, and in frost-free coastal South East Queensland it crops poorly, if at all.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 6m
Best Planting Season: June to August while dormant, with autumn and early spring also suitable
Soil & Drainage: Deep, fertile loam; handles moderately heavy clay provided it drains well; prefers a slightly acidic to neutral pH
Establishment Care: Water deeply and regularly throughout the first two summers, reducing frequency once the tree is established, and top up organic mulch each spring, a hand's width from the trunk. Pick the fruit full sized and still green, then ripen it to yellow indoors, since pears left to ripen on the tree turn soft and mealy at the core.
Plant Details
Height: 4 to 8m
Width: 3 to 5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun
Native to: Europe; cultivar raised in England
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.







