Spring has sprung, and the flowers are blooming. Though it should be smelling pleasant this time of the year, you might walk past the Bradford pear tree and hold your breath. As of January 2023, it ...

Q. How do I know when it’s time to pick my pears? Last year I picked them when I thought they were ripe, but they were bad (the cores were brown and mushy). European pears need to be harvested when ...

The once-popular Callery pear is blooming in suburbs across Virginia and throughout much of the eastern and midwestern U.S. The Callery pear, also known as the Bradford pear, is an ornamental tree ...

Q: We had a Bradford pear that suddenly, with no warning at all, fell over in a brisk windstorm last March. It could have fallen onto our house, into the neighbor’s fence, or over our landscape, so at ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Most people these days have, at the very least, heard of Callery and Bradford pear trees and know something about the invasiveness of this ornamental street tree. But I still ...