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

First, cut out all of the infected branch tips and leaves that you can reach and throw them out with the trash. Next spring, ...

When pruning a fruit tree, it’s important to know which branches will be blossoming and producing fruit. Look for fruit spurs on apple and pear branches. These are roughly 3- to 6-inch-long ...

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.

Other flaws are harder to ignore. Bradford pear trees have a significant structural challenge, with a bunch of weak branches arising from the same section of the trunk. If a storm doesn't make a ...

And if you live in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest or South, you have probably seen a medium-sized tree with long branches, covered with small white blooms – the Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana).

"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 ...