Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

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Pear trees are attractive enhancements to gardens and bear delicious, nutritious fruit. In Japan folklore, pears are believed to ward off evil and misfortune and were often planted near gates and in ...

Noticing that rotting-fish odor when you step outside this spring? It means Bradford pears are back in bloom - and the invasive trees are all over.

Spring means everything is in bloom...including the odorous Bradford pear tree. What South Carolinians need to know.

Spring means everything is in bloom...including the odorous Bradford pear tree. What North Carolinians need to know.

It's why last year the state put the Terrestrial Plants Rule into effect, banning 44 species of them from the landscaping trade. But experts say there were a few glaring plants left off the list. Most ...

Once promoted by the government as the perfect ornamental landscape tree, Bradford pears are now seen as a dangerous scourge ...