I have a 'Bartlett' pear tree I planted 4 years ago. The second year, it produced three pears. The last 2 years, it bypassed flowering and went straight into leaves... therefore, no fruit. It is about ...

The flowering pear tree is a visual headline signaling the return of spring and approach of summer. But this year, it's making another headline -- as an invasive species.“I agree they’re really ...

Leaves – Deciduous; simple; ovate to cordate shape; finely serrated margins with wavy appearance; 2-3” long, almost as wide as long; glabrous and leathery texture, glossy dark green color. Twigs and ...

The snarl of a chainsaw never sounds sweeter than when slicing through the trunk of a nasty Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana). I have railed against the spring-blooming, white-flowering tree for years.

The English word arbor comes from the Latin arbor, meaning tree, and Arbor Day is a day set aside for planting, nurturing and celebrating trees. Arbor Day celebrations began in 1872 in Nebraska, and ...

Flowers and trees are starting to bloom across Ohio, but not all things in bloom are a good thing.The Callery pear tree is starting to bloom across the state and is easy to spot along about any local ...

Across the Upstate, the fluffy white blooms of Bradford pear trees are beginning to show up, causing delight for some and pure hatred for others.Why is a tree, described a few decades ago as “ideal” ...

When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And if you live in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest or South, you have probably seen a medium-sized tree with long branches, ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. (Joe Webb) - The flowering pear trees are in full bloom in the Tri-State right now, and they are blooming for the first time in some unusual places. Birds have spread the seeds from ...

You may love them for their showering white canopy or hate their pungent smell, but this spring is the final show for York’s iconic white flowering Bradford Pear trees. Here since the 1970s, all will ...

I rarely meet an unlovable plant. But there is one tree that has no place in my garden or anyone else’s garden: the callery pear, which most of us recognize as the cultivar ‘Bradford Pear.’ My ...

A farmer performs flower thinning on a pear tree at a garden in Qian'an City, north China's Hebei Province, April 8, 2026. As pear trees in Qian'an City start to bloom, local farmers are busy ...