While it can produce stunning blooms, this tree’s odor has been compared to dead fish, vomit, and urine, to name just a few ...

When it comes to successfully growing peach, pear, and plum trees, spring is the best time to plant them. Here's why.

New York City is known for its array of strange smells, from urine to body odor, but one tree is filling the streets with a particularly unpleasant stench. The Callery Pear tree, which is in the ...

It could be a Bradford Pear tree. Many people find the smell that emits from the Bradford Pear to closely resemble the smell of urine or rotting fish. It is meant to attract pollinators like ...

Bradford pear trees form thick stands that prevent sunlight from nourishing native plants, which turn provide food and habitats for wildlife. Widely considered to be a malodorous tree, the smell ...

Yes, if you have a Callery Pear in your landscape it needs removed and replaced. There are many good substitutes for this tree, including the Eastern Redbud. This native tree is flowering right ...

so it quickly became a preferred plant for ornamental plantings," said ... to note that many people do not like the smell of Bradford pear trees. Finally, do not try to eat the fruit off of ...

While most native trees have yet to bloom, the Callery pear stands out like a sore thumb from the pink-flowering redbuds and the hickories void of leaves. Although some may call it pretty ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — While the Callery pear tree (also known as the Bradford pear tree) may look and smell nice ... you’re looking to replace that flowering tree, dwarf crab apples ...

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, while showy, have an unpleasant smell that has ...

For me, this time of the year is marked not only by the returning presence of pollen but by one of my least favorite plants: the Bradford pear tree ... bombarded by the smell from the rows ...