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Celebration NUVAR®

Pyrus communis
Celebration NUVAR pears
Celebration NUVAR is listed in the RHS Plants for Pollinators

Nuvar® Celebration is a modern English dessert pear, closely related to Conference. The pears have a similarly good flavour but tend to be slightly larger.

 

 

Celebration NUVAR pear trees for sale

  • 1-year bare-root tree on Quince A rootstock£38.25
    Mature height: 2m-3.5m after 10 years
    Can be trained on as a large bush-trained or half-standard tree, or a large fan or espalier.
    Available next season

Growing and Training

Nuvar® Celebration trees are quite vigorous and generally healthy and easy to grow.


Recommended pollinators for Celebration NUVAR pear trees

Celebration NUVAR is not self-fertile, so you will need another different but compatible variety planted nearby in order to produce fruit. The following varieties are good pollinators for Celebration NUVAR. If you are not sure about pollination requirements don't hesitate to ask us. More pollinators >

  • Pollinator Beth
    Beth
    An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
  • Pollinator Beurre Superfin
    Beurre Superfin
    A traditional French 19th century pear, widely considered one of the best for flavour.
  • Pollinator Concorde
    Concorde
    A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
  • Pollinator Gorham
    Gorham
    A reliable early 20th century American pear, with a sweet creamy flesh.
  • Pollinator Invincible
    Invincible
    Invincible is a high quality pear which can also cope with difficult conditions.
  • Pollinator Obelisk
    Obelisk
    A useful dwarf pear tree for small gardens, it grows with a tidy upright habit and is self-fertile.
  • Pollinator Williams
    Williams
    Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.

History

Nuvar Celebration is a cross between Conference and Packham's Triumph, developed at the East Malling Research Station in the 1970s. It can be considered an improved Conference in most respects.


Celebration NUVAR characteristics

  • Gardening skillAverage
  • Fruit persistenceNormal ripening
  • Self-fertile?Not self-fertile
  • Pollinating othersAverage
  • Pick seasonLate
  • Picking monthSeptember
  • Picking periodlate September
  • Keeping1-2 months
  • Food usesEating fresh
  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Period of origin1950 - 1999
  • Fruit colourGreen / YellowRusset

You might also like these varieties

  • See also Beth
    Beth
    An easy and reliable early-season pear, with a very good melting flavour.
  • See also Concorde
    Concorde
    A marriage of Conference and Comice - Concorde is easy to grow, heavy crops, excellent flavour.
  • See also Conference
    Conference
    Conference is a popular and reliable English pear, well-suited to the UK climate.
  • See also Williams
    Williams
    Williams is a classic English pear, also known as Bartlett, with good flavour and quite easy to grow.

More about pear trees

The modern dessert pear with its refined flavours and melting flesh evolved in the 19th century, and with some exceptions almost all the pears we know today were developed at that time.

Unlike apples, which often helpfully come away in the hand when they are ripe, if you let pears ripen on the tree you will find they are overripe inside. Instead pears need to be harvested before they are ripe - then ripened in a fruit bowl. This just takes practice, and after a few seasons you will soon know the tell-tale little signs that your pears are ready for picking.


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