I bought this bradford pear, really not knowing what I was buying. I was actually getting a flowering pear tree, I thought, that had been marked down seventy five percent, to clear it off the lot. I was hoping I would get the spring flowers but I thought I would get pears too. So I looked it up a couple of years ago and I became an educated man. It is a non-fruiting variety.
Regardless of my lack of knowledge about all of this, I have a beautiful specimen tree and the leaves are the last to fall this year. I like the shine and the color. It is just great.
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Nature doesn't make mistakes, right?
Maybe you got what you really wanted, after all!
Yes, I think so.
Ahh so pretty-who needs a pear
vickie
Sometimes it's just nice to have something beautiful to look at....gorgeous colour :)
I didn't know there was a non-fruiting variety so now I'm educated too. The leaf colours are magnificent, I wonder if they're like that all year round or just in the fall.
When your post first appeared on my Blogroll, I misread the title as Bradford Pier. I thought, how odd, even though Bradford was the city of my birth and I now only live a few miles from it, I never knew it had a pier. Perhaps the fact that it is 50 or so miles from the sea should have made me suspicious, but Wigan famously has a pier and that is miles from the sea. I have now readjusted my glasses and can say ... nice post.
Beautiful colors in the leaves. Even without fruit you got an excellent 'deal'.
Enjoy your weekend.
Sunny :)
I didn't know there were varieties without fruit..but I guess if the flowering Cherry can do it, why not the pear?!
Lovely color on that tree.
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