In Los Angeles, February is known as the month when winter merges into spring.The Super Bowl, in early February, coincides with a major botanical event: the onset of flowering — known scient… ...

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. ... which has a weeping growth form.

What a spring it has been for flowering trees! ... beautiful and long-lived (50 years). Some are double-flowered, some are columnar and some are weeping. ... The Bradford callery pear ...

Dear Roger: My flowering pear trees look like they will die. They are dropping brown leaves. ... a weeping red-leaved form, a white-flowering form, several plants of the Chinese species, ...

The dank smell of the ornamental pear blossom attracts honey bees and flies, specifically, hover flies. And there's a good, but smelly, reason.

Webeler said there are native, non-invasive trees that are great alternatives, such as a weeping cherry tree or a flowering peach tree. “Plant diversity," he said.

It’s the perfect time of year to do birds and butterflies a solid — by killing an invasive, ornamental and all-too-common pear tree. This April and May, if you live in or near Kansas City and ...