Just got and planted my Christmas gift from work yesterday. A dwarf pear tree, can't wait for spring to plant lavender, rosemary, strawberry and other flowers around it. But the rest of the garden is still a bit messy
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Is it supposed to be decorative or provide fruit?
The tree should provide some fruit. The flowers and herbs I want to plant around it are more decorative and for the bees.
Just a little spot that I enjoy seeing and will hopefully give some fruit.
Iirc pears can be a bit fidgetty because there needs to be a compatible tree in the neighborhood so you get it pollinated. I don't know how much of a problem it is in practice.
It's a self pollinating variety, but if a other tree is nearby it will have more fruits. My old neighbours had 1 appel tree and 1 pear tree that where also self pollinating. They had fruit almost every year.
I'm also looking to get a appel tree and self pollinating is one of the things it needs to be. I have room for only 2 small trees and rather have 2 different fruits then 1 but more. But as I understand self pollinating variety work but if there is a compatible species nearby you get more fruits. But I will see how much fruit it will produce if any.