Some states want to keep these pretty pear trees from blossoming Bradford pears are blooming all over parts of America: pretty, but a problem! NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with master gardener ...

A non-flowering pear tree just might be too young to think reproduction. If lack of maturity doesn't explain this problem, it could be out-of-whack soil nutrition, lack of pruning, drought stress ...

The Bradford pear tree is particularly eye-catching as spring kicks off and its blooms pop. But get close and a whiff of its blossoms may send you running. An ornamental tree found across the U.S ...

The Bradford pear tree, with its fluffy white early-spring blossoms, is a looker. Even the tree's putrid aroma emitted at full-bloom hasn't kept it from becoming a go-to ornamental option for ...

The passionate hatred that has developed for the Bradford pear tree over the last half century begs an explanation. In 1964, an article in The New York Times said that for people improving their ...

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.

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… ...

A flowering pear tree in full bloom on Emerson Woods in Lexington, Ky., Monday, March 28, 2016. Charles Bertram [email protected] ...

Bradford pear trees are a pretty sight, ... It's officially spring in Greater Cincinnati, meaning you've probably seen white-flowering Callery pear trees blooming all over the city. ...

Fire blight is infecting flowering pear trees in large numbers in Indiana for the third consecutive year with a Purdue Extension specialist again urging homeowners to check their trees for symptoms.

Bradford pear trees are a pretty sight, ... It's officially spring in Greater Cincinnati, meaning you've probably seen white-flowering Callery pear trees blooming all over the city.

The trees were part of the "63 pear trees" in sidewalk plots that flanked both sides of Adams Avenue from Interstate 15, past the Kensington sign and the theater to Aldine Drive and then to ...