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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

One of those, the Bradford pear tree, was once touted as the perfect ... of control and grown into power lines with their delicate branches. “There have been power outages, damages to houses ...