Tawara Pear

Tawara is a new, relatively hardy, Asian pear variety producing 2-3 inch yellow fruit that are crisp, sweet and very juicy. The trees are hardy to -30 degrees. Thin fruit aggressively for best flavor size and quality. Tawara is self-fertile. You do not need to plant any other pear varieties to pollinate it, but different pears may improve fruit set. It may not reliably pollinate other pears trees. … Pears are a great fruit for Central Vermont. Pears suffer from fewer pests and diseases than apple trees, making it easier to grow high quality fruit. Plant 20-30 ft apart. All of the pears have been grafted onto semi-dwarfing rootstocks. OHFx87 is a bit smaller than OHFx97. Unpruned they can still get to 20 ft or more.  Pear Pollination: The two different strains of pear, communis (European) and ussuriensis (Siberian), flower at slightly different times and will not reliably pollinate each other. Plant communis types with communis types, and ussuriensis types for most reliable fruit set. A