The best way to avoid sprouts when taking out a Bradford pear tree is to have an arborist grind the stump out.

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 ...

Weak Branching Structure When a 30-foot-tall tree encounters a wind gust of 40 mph, it breaks up into little pieces and ends up as a pile of debris in the street. The reason is that all of its ...

Ornamental pear trees (many of you call them Bradford pears ... tree to keep it around is really like throwing money down a hole. If you have that much disposable income to keep this tree around ...

The tree was used in experimentation with the common fruiting pear (Pyrus communis) which resulted in the Bradford Pear vultivar, a tree that could tolerate a variety of harsh growing conditions. A ...