They’re beautiful in bloom, but Callery pear trees crowd out native plants and turn productive open land into woody thickets, writes University of Dayton biology professor Ryan W. McEwan. When people ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And if you live in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest or South, you have probably seen a medium-sized tree ...

The Dallas County Roadside Management Program, in partnership with Bentley Ridge Tree Farm and Nursery and the Iowa Weed Commissioners’ Association, is holding a callery pear “buy-back” program for ...

Pear trees can be roughly divided into two types: European and Asian. This distinction is not just about origin but also the fruit they produce. Fruit from Asian pears is usually crunchy and round or ...

The Bradford pear tree is particularly eye-catching as spring kicks off and its blooms pop. But get close and a whiff of its blossoms may send you running. An ornamental tree found across the U.S.

Fall is fast approaching, but gardening season isn’t over yet. We’re still getting plenty of questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension ...

I had not visited any of my favorite garden centers since January, so on a warm, sunny afternoon recently, I strolled through one of Columbus’ finest garden centers and explored the collection of ...

This past week, the landscape throughout much of Greater Columbus turned white almost overnight; not from an early spring snow, but from a blizzard of billowy white flowers of Callery pear trees! It's ...

It's hard to compete with America's most readily available fruit, but that's precisely what pears do when they go head-to-head with apples each year. Due to their similar growing conditions, harvest ...

I was harvesting pears and found this little beauty (pictured, right). I have a red pear tree, and 10 metres away a green pear tree. I’ve had some green/yellow stripes on the red pears for the past ...