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Kieffer Pear Tree
Kieffer Pear Tree
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The toughest, most forgiving pear you can grow — a heavy-bearing heirloom that shrugs off heat, cold, and fire blight while loading its branches with crisp, spicy-sweet fruit.
The Kieffer is a classic American heirloom, a cross between the European pear and the hardy Asian sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia). That sand-pear blood is its secret: it gives Kieffer remarkable vigor, disease resistance, and a firm, slightly grainy flesh with a distinctive aromatic, spicy-sweet flavor. These are old-fashioned "cooking" or "canning" pears at their best — superb for baking, preserves, butters, and spiced pears — and they sweeten nicely off the tree if you let them mellow indoors.
Why growers choose the Kieffer
- Famously dependable. Kieffer is one of the most reliable, productive pears in America, prized for bearing big crops year after year with very little fuss.
- Wide adaptability. Hardy in zones 4 through 9, it tolerates both hard winters and Southern heat better than most European pears, with low chill requirements that suit warmer regions.
- Fire blight resistance. Its sand-pear parentage gives it strong natural resistance to fire blight, the disease that destroys many other pear varieties.
- Largely self-fruitful. Kieffer can set a crop on its own, though a second pear variety nearby will reliably increase your harvest.
- Long-keeping fruit. The firm flesh stores for weeks in a cool spot and holds its shape beautifully when canned or baked.
At a mature 15 to 25 feet tall and a relatively narrow 5 to 10 feet wide, Kieffer makes an upright, long-lived orchard tree — a single specimen can supply a family with fruit for canning, a productive anchor for a backyard orchard, or a hardy choice where finicky pears have failed before.
Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
We want you to love your UncommonWares! If it's not a fit, we'll gladly accept returns of unused, stock (non-custom) UncommonWares products within 15 days of purchase.
⚠️ NOTE - UncommonWares offers products from curated brands. Many of which have their own return or final sale policies. We will note their policy at the bottom of their product listing so it's clear. Please be sure to read each brand's return policy before purchase. ⚠️
The following applies only to UncommonWares branded product (other brands' policies are listed on their product page):
STOCK PRODUCTS - Stock products at UncommonWares are carefully curated and often in limited quantities. If you're lucky enough to grab some UW goods before they sell out, we feel certain you will enjoy your purchases. If for whatever reason stock items purchased need to be returned, please be sure it's in new, unused condition, in its original packaging and returned to the store within 15 days of purchase. Online Orders: Shipping charges are non-refundable and any return shipping cost incurred will not be reimbursed unless the product arrived damaged or incorrect product was sent. NOTE: Only stock, non-custom/non-personalized products can be returned.
CUSTOM PRODUCTS - UncommonWares custom products are created as ordered, therefore, all personalized/custom product sales are final. It is rare, but if your item arrives damaged or is defective, it must be reported within 10 business days for replacement. Simply email 4service@uncommonwares.com with a photo of the damage and any details about your order so we can efficiently process your replacement.
Please note that as a result of different textures and finishes colors will vary on products whether digitally imprinted or dyed. Products from separate dye lots may result in color shift. We always recommend coordinating instead of matching. In addition, what is shown on your screen may vary from your finished product. Slight color shifts are not considered defective and therefore cannot be returned nor replaced.
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