Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana) were introduced by the United States Department of Agriculture as ornamental landscape trees in the mid-1960s, USA TODAY reports. According to the Ohio ...

From beloved to banished, cities and states are outlawing cultivars of the Callery pear, a popular, yet highly invasive, ...

People should know that In the landscape, the Callery pear has become a less desirable tree. It can be a messy tree due to its weak limbs and susceptibility to storm damage and the flowers ...

This past week, the landscape throughout much of Greater Columbus turned white almost overnight; not from an early spring snow, but from a blizzard of billowy white flowers of Callery pear trees!

Many plants in Texas landscapes are suitable hosts for aphids, including bedding plants, ash, barberry, boxelder, crape ...

With spring blooming all around us, it's only natural to pay a bit more attention to the trees than we usually might. But ...

The Bradford Pear is not the only plant introduced to our ecosystem and then later added to the invasive species list. The Multiflora Rose which is native to Eastern Asia is a bushy plant with ...

While pruning is essential, the timing of your pruning matters greatly. In fact, when you prune your fruit trees impacts ...

Recently, we have observed large numbers of white-flowered, cone-shaped trees dotting Ohio’s landscape ... Bradford Pears (also known as Callery Pear) which are native to China and Vietnam.

We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think ...

This popular low-growing plant seems like a nice, innocuous groundcover, but it’s an aggressive grower that can spread 50 ...

Rust disease is not typically fatal to plants, including Asian pear, but can inhibit fruit production. Spring rains can make ...