Pear trees

We did. The deer and other wildlife seem to enjoy them immensely. We also noticed that the deer do not chew on the tips of the pear trees or try to rub the bark like apple trees. Some say they will but for now they have left them alone and focused only on eating the pears. We bought moonglow pears which have a reputation for not being the best tasting and needing to be ripened off the vine but the deer ate every single one of them and the trees we purchased on sale from the box store produced tons of fruit that same year.

We bought them on sale at Walmart, lol. We have a ritual of stopping by the Wal-mart on our way to the property to see if any trees are for sale that we might like to add. Just because they come from a box store doesn't mean that they are bad trees.

To be fair, my fiance did his fair share of landscaping, tree grafting and forestry work in his younger days and knows a good tree when he sees one and how to plant trees with a very high success rate even in the middle of a bone dry summer it seems like.

I think most of the pear trees will work. Moonglows are only supposed to bear until mid-August but ours were still dropping fruit up until late October.

The only pear tree I hate are Bradfords which I don't think really counts since it is only an ornamental. They smell like cat pee and look for excuses to drop branches. Just about as useless as a silver maple. I have also noticed that deer do not seem to like Asian pears as much as other varieties. When I used to live next to an apple orchard, the Asian pears would go completely untouched even after they had fallen to the ground and softened. My horses did not care for the Asian pears either but would happily gobble up every other variety of pear.

No the Web site said Galloway and Gate pears were good for wildlife.

Ok. Thanks. Let me know if you still have info from them.

Horn: are you planning on eating any of the fruit from the pear trees, if not then why not plant some type of red apple trees because they will attract deer just as well or even better then pear and you can enjoy some of the fruits of your labor. Just sayin.

I talked to both place but pretty sure I ended up buying from Cummins ... both were knowledgeable and helpful.

cumminsnursery.com/index.html

www.centuryfarmorchards.com/

Century farm orchards looks amazing. I had to close the window before I tried to impulse buy something.

I can look through and see if I can find the rootstock and variety .... everyone who knows anything about apple trees will tell you they dont like floods and will likely die. He never told me they would survive just tried to put together something that would without any guarantees.