Growing a pear tree gives you sweet fruit and year-round beauty with very little maintenance required. For success, choose the right variety for your climate, plant in full sun, and water deeply each ...

Pears are a mild, sweet fruit with a fibrous centre. They are rich in antioxidants and dietary fibre, cholesterol and calories. They are delicious fruits that can be grown in a wide range of soils ...

Bradford pear trees have several undesirable qualities you may want to avoid. Reviewed by Joseph Tychonievich Bradford pear trees are the trees people love to hate. Notorious for their funky-smelling ...

Over the years I have grown and trained quite a few espalier pears, which are those trained to grow laterally in tiers of branches from either side of the main stem. But the first espaliers here at ...

Q: We had a Bradford pear that suddenly, with no warning at all, fell over in a brisk windstorm last March. It could have fallen onto our house, into the neighbor’s fence, or over our landscape, so at ...

Pears hang from a branch at Oregon State University’s Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center in this photo from July. The pear industry had a strong harvest this season, but is facing ...

Gardeners with apple or pear trees are being warned to check them in January for a potentially deadly disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, advises in the January section of ...

When the Bradford pear trees are in bloom in early spring, you pretty much can't miss them; you see the lovely white blossoms on trees everywhere - and you smell that not-nearly-so-lovely fishy odor ...

Blooming trees and flowers are a classic sign of spring, but one flowering tree actually causes an ugly invasive problem.Bradford Pear trees are easy to spot in Ohio, with many lining the local ...