Blake's Pride Pear Tree

Blake’s Pride is a dependable, productive pear that delivers everything home growers want — large crops of aromatic, juicy, buttery fruit with excellent disease resistance and a reliable early September harvest. Originating from Ohio and introduced in 1998, it was developed with the home orchard in mind, combining Bartlett-quality flavor with stronger disease resistance and heat tolerance that make it practical to grow across a wide range of climates in Zones 5–8.

Aromatic, Buttery Flavor Worth Growing For

Blake’s Pride produces medium-to-large pears with glossy yellow skin accented with attractive tan-russet hues. The flesh is smooth and buttery with a juicy, aromatic quality that’s deeply satisfying fresh off the tree. It ripens in early September — right as the season hits its stride — and stores well after harvest, giving you flexibility for canning, pear butter, and desserts beyond the fresh-eating window.

Fire Blight Resistant and Heat Tolerant

Fire blight is the most serious threat to pear trees, and Blake’s Pride carries genuine resistance to it — a meaningful practical advantage for home growers who want a healthy, long-lived tree without intensive disease management. Its heat tolerance extends its range into warmer regions within its zone, and the upright growth habit makes it easy to manage and maintain over the long life of the tree.

Why Growers Choose Blake’s Pride

• Aromatic, buttery, juicy flavor — genuine quality that rivals classic pear varieties
• Fire blight resistant — reliable and healthy with less disease management required
• Heat tolerant — performs well across a wide range of climates in Zones 5–8
• Early September harvest — reliable fall timing with good storage life
• Large, productive crops — consistently abundant yields season after season
• Upright growth habit — easy to manage and train in the home orchard
• Organic options available — for growers who want a certified organic tree