Apple & Pear Duo

A dynamic duo of apples and pears that will have your mouth watering! Apple ‘Santana’ and Pear ‘Beurre Alexandre Lucas’ make the perfect partnership for your garden, delivering generous crops of crisp and juicy fruits.

Apple ‘Santana’ – Pollination Group 3 – Eating Apple – boasts red fruits with a nicely balanced flavour, juicy flesh and a good crunch. Good yields of large dessert apple can be harvested in September and may be stored into October if necessary.

Pear ‘Beurre Alexandre Lucas’ – Pollination Group 2 – Eating Pear – produces rounded, russet skinned dessert Pears. The white flesh is sweet and buttery with a hint of acidity that gives it a distinctive and delicious flavour. Fruits can be harvested in October when they ripen from green to a gentle shade of yellow-green.

• Apple rootstock:M9 – Dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 2.5m (8′)
• Pear and Quince rootstocks:Quince Adams – Dwarf reaching a mature height of up to 2.5-3m (8-10′)

These varieties are not self-fertile but will still produce fruit when pollinated by passing insects. For the heaviest crops they are best grown with another variety of apple and pear. If you only have room for one tree then a neighbouring tree close by will often act as a suitable pollinator.

Estimated time to cropping once planted: 2 years.
Estimated time to best yields: 5 years.

Useful links:

How to grow fruit trees Fruit rootstock guide

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