Beginning this coming week in Greater Columbus, we should start to see the full bloom of one of the most widely planted flowering trees, the Callery pear. The billowy white flowers of this popular and ...

May 11—They look pretty from a distance until you approach. Then the horrid stench is upon you, something that approximates rotting flesh or worse. The Bradford or Callery pear tree is indeed not a ...

Beginning this coming week in Greater Columbus, we should start to see the full bloom of one of the most widely planted flowering trees, the Callery pear. The billowy white flowers of this popular and ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - The Bradford pear not only smells bad, it also may be bad for our ecosystem. The Bradford pear stands out in late winter and early spring, but even though the tree produces ...

If you find sticky, amber-colored droplets on your pear tree, your tree could be infected with fire pear blight, a bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora. Unfortunately, this pathogen can ...

Stinky but handsome and widely popular landscape trees have spawned aggressive invaders, creating thickets that overwhelm native plants and sport nasty four-inch spikes. Bradford pears and 24 other ...

The Bradford pear after an ice storm. The best treatment for these ornamental trees? Eradicate them. The trees are spreading and killing much-needed native species. Johnson County Extension Once the ...

Spring, a beautiful time of year, especially as trees are blooming. There is one tree in particular that outshines others, the callery pear. You see its white flowers everywhere. Many mistakenly think ...