Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

An initiative by the Kettering Tree Committee wants to remove the trees from city-owned land and replace them with native ...

Indiana is taking decisive action to curb the spread of the Callery pear, a popular but destructive invasive tree species ...

Although they are pretty, Bradford pear trees are smelly and invasive. They are tolerant to the range of soil types and ...

Pear trees are attractive enhancements to gardens and bear delicious, nutritious fruit. In Japan folklore, pears are believed to ward off evil and misfortune and were often planted near gates and in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — With spring in full bloom across West Michigan, there is at least one tree that plant biologists would like to kill off across the state: the callery pear. The callery ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – 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 ...

Bradford pear trees were once popular but now considered an invasive species. They smell bad and harm native ecosystems. Why ...

The days are heating up, the sun is out longer and the smells of spring are in the air. Or is that just the smell of a ...