East facing wall fruit

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• Brett3 Posts: 8

  January 2016

  Epsom in surrey, I've already got a line of Morello cherry trained as fans along a stretch of the same wall that are growing really well, wondered if pears might also like this spot?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,142

  January 2016

  I've got a Concorde (our favourite) espaliered pear forming a sort of 'fence' on the side of our eating area on the terrace - it runs north/south and has the studio forming the opposite wall of the eating area, so I suppose the pear could be said to be 'east facing'  . 

  I planted it as a one year maiden, and it has three layers of growth so I suppose it's four years old now.  It had some blossom last year but is too young to bear fruit yet so I can't tell you how successful it will be, but it's looking good so far.

  Good luck

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Brett3 Posts: 8

  January 2016

  brilliant thank you cross pollination shouldnt be a problem I'm planning on adding a few trees

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,142

  January 2016

  Concorde is self-fertile https://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=concorde+pear

  but like Conference, it will produce an even heavier crop if there's a pear of the right pollination group in the vicinity

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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