If you're looking forward to growing fruit trees in your yard, don't stop at apples. Check out this low-maintenance pear variety that's pretty easy to grow.

Pear trees are very slow to bear fruit — “plant pears for your heirs,” goes an old adage — so pear growers are extraordinarily conservative in introducing new varieties.

How to grow a pear tree - our expert guide Pear trees are simple-to-grow fruit trees that can thrive in US hardiness zone 3 to US hardiness zone 10. There are thousands of pear varieties globally ...

Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A ...