Weeping silver pear is a small deciduous tree with an interesting and lovely effect in the garden. Its grayish leaves are long and narrow -- like a willow, which is how it gets its name, salicifolia, ...

The callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) made its appearance in the United States in the 1900s when it was imported from Asia to improve the health of our common pear, which was prone to fire blight. A ...

Spring is in the air. You can tell, because the air stinks. That foul fragrance is the contribution of the Callery pear tree to Colorado. Those who have not inhaled its near-toxic fumes simply don’t ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! It is hard to believe this is the last week of April. Hopefully, most of the cold weather is behind us as we experienced two very chilling nights this week ...

As an urban landscaping option, a certain ornamental, flowering pear tree might be nice and compact — even with a bit of an odorous downside. After some unfortunate cross-breeding between varieties, ...

The Bradford pear tree in our front yard has not been looking good this year. Some sections of the tree appear to have died, and the bark is coming off of large sections of the trunk. It also lost its ...

York’s iconic white flowering pear trees' days are numbered, so enjoy their display of blooms this week while you can. The flowering pear trees along Market Street surrounding Continental Square are ...