Pear tree

Depending on the variety, you may well need another pear tree in the locality, but it doesn't have to be in your garden, so there may well be one nearby. Pear blossom is a little more frost tender than apple and a late frost could affect your pear without affecting the apple. If it's a small tree. a loose covering of fleece is all you need to protect the trees.

If the pear tree is a self pollinator you won't need another pear tree, but if not, then you will do.Do you know the variety?

Look up a good nursery site and that will tell you your pear group I.e. A B or C and comparable varieties. To be honest even those so called self fertilising always do better with another variety.

If you don't know the variety, note when it is in blossom and go along to your garden centre to see what varieties are in bloom at the same time. You can't take descriptions of flowering time as gospel, as the local seasonal changes will alter the time.
If you get fruit, the RHS will try to identify the tree from the fruit and a few leaves.
Some cultivars require two pollinators, so identification is far the best option to be sure.
Check out this web page
www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=378

Thanks for all the tips just one more thing would I need to put a net over it to stop birds from eating at if it did start to bare fruit I only planted it last year would that have something to do with it

Birds don't bother my pears.

Ah, if you only planted it last year, it would depend on the rootstock regarding how long it takes to fruit. Only dwarfing rootstock will fruit quickly. Did you have blossom last year ?. If you are not getting blossom, it is not mature enough yet, If you are getting blossom, but it is not setting, that indicates that you need pollinators.

In my garden if I get a good crop of apples I get few pears and if there are lots of pears there are few apples.

I had alot of blossom and there seams to quite alot this year

..If you are getting blossom, but no fruit, it is either frost or lack of pollination. Try putting fleece over it if frost is forecast, but leave it off during the day to allow the bees access.

Doesn't it take about seven years for a young fruit tree to bear fruit?

Perhaps they have bred earlier fruiting varieties now though.

My DH had an orchard. When we were newly married I looked forward to the trees having fruit. He said that I shouldn't expect fruit from the pear trees as "you plant pears for your heirs". We were there for ten years and only had any decent fruit from the pear trees in the last couple of years.