Beurré Giffard Pear Rootstock/Size:OHxF 97 Semi-Standard: 4-5 ft. (Bud grafts on 1 yr. older rootstock)

Beurré Giffard Pear Rootstock/Size:OHxF 97 Semi-Standard: 4-5 ft. (Bud grafts on 1 yr. older rootstock)Overview Beurr Giffard is a classic early season European pear known for its elegant tree form, precocity, and excellent dessert quality. We became aware of it when friend and fellow fruit growers Hal Barkdull had proclaimed it "the best pear I've ever tried and I hadn't even liked pears until I tried this one." It does well in moderately cold climates (although key word is moderately. Please read our notes on its hardiness at the bottom). Tree

It may work in Billings or warmer microclimates that experience slightly colder temperatures

Thornberry should be treated as requiring cross-pollination

It needs a compatible pollenizer:

Hardiness: Zone 3

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plus another 25% from Spartan—one of whose parents is McIntosh)

Comes in a bundle of 2 small 2nd year plants from rooted cuttings grown out in 2025

spacing can be reduced to 12 feet apart and for wider spacing in fertile soils or lower-density systems

This female hardy kiwi produces smooth

Wickson is not self-fertile and needs a pollenizer

(Although he didn't state if this was leaf bud or flower bud damage)

It appears in 18th-century Southern nursery listings (mid-1700s)