He named his selection Bradford. And the rest is history. The odd thing is, an individual specimen of Callery pear is actually self-sterile — a single tree, in the absence of pollen from another ...

Bradford pear trees are notorious for limbs that split in wind, heavy snow and ice, but the newer varieties were bred to have much stronger wood. They are a beautiful tree when they bloom to their ...

Ornamental pear trees (many of you call them Bradford pears ... As the tree ages, these limbs all grow together and share the wood that forms the trunk. As a result the limbs are very weakly ...