I understand your excitment, we planted a number of cider apples, damsons, plums, gages and 2 comice trees last year. I've been smiling to myself at the blossom on each tree and wondered if the bees have done their job in pollonating them. If i get 1 pear on each tree i will be thrilled. Dobbies had a lucky dip end of season offer last week so we sent off for 3 trees. We got a sweet cherry, a fig and a damson. I am also a sucker for climbers so every tree i plant gets a clematis or a climbing rose planted next to it, some of the roses outgrow the trees for a while so i prune them back to keep them in check, i figure we might not get to see flowers yet but they're developing good roots. It's actually a joke in our house that each climber needs a companion climber. Hope you enjoy your pears, Helen