A telescopic pruner is ideal if you have a taller apple tree and are struggling to reach some branches. A small hand-held ...

This was done in an attempt to breed pear trees that were resistant to fire blight, a bacterial disease that can spread rapidly causing leaves and branches to blacken as if burnt by fire, eventually ...

There's something worse than their smell. It's not necessarily the Bradford pear tree that is bad, although the trees did tend to have a weak branch structure and were prone to splitting or cracking.

"We make sure they have a very balanced diet, but their favorite thing are branches," Grieves said. Among their favorites are the much-maligned Bradford pear, the invasive Callery pear trees that ...

Legislation banning Bradford pear trees has been proposed in Missouri and Kansas, too. Tennessee has not taken that step yet. But if the smell or the thorny branches or just the sight of them ...

Kelly Oten, an NC State Extension forest health specialist, talked to us about their weak branches and invasive qualities that make the tree an all-around bad idea. “The Bradford Pear is a ...

Branches develop dark ... Although fire blight can kill susceptible soft pear cultivars such as ‘Barlett’ (European types are especially susceptible) it only temporarily mars the appearance ...

It's officially spring in Greater Cincinnati, meaning you've probably seen white-flowering Callery pear trees blooming all over the city. The Callery pear tree − also known as the Bradford ...

The Bradford pear trees have two major drawbacks. First, they are structurally weak, with brittle branches and trunks, making them prone to damage in strong Alabama storms. Second, the trees emit ...