Let me back up and explain. Ornamental pear trees (many of you call them Bradford pears) have one of the worst branching habits of any tree ever released in the trade. This tree has a number of ...

Leaves – Deciduous; simple ... and so continue to serve as the rootstock for some fruit-producing pear trees. The flowering pear tree is self-incompatible, which means that it cannot self-pollinate to ...

The best time to plant bare-root fruit trees like apples is towards the end of winter or the first half of spring, once the ...

Putting all that aside, the article did start a conversation on this blog and on Facebook, and got people thinking about trees and how important they are to our world. Ornamental pear, Pyrus ...

The tree’s heart-shaped leaves turn blue-green ... a replacement for your Bradford pear. ‘Natchez’, ‘White Chocolate’, and ‘Acoma’ are white-flowering versions.

Fire blight infects ornamental fruit trees such as this callery pear, a popular landscape tree. Symptoms include cankers on branches, wilted shoots and blacked leaves, which give trees a “scorched” ...