They also provide year-round visual interest. Growing a pear tree gives you sweet fruit and year-round beauty with very little maintenance required. For success, choose the right variety for your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bradford pear trees in bloom along a driveway in Sussex County, Del. Lee Cannon/Flickr, CC BY-SA When people think of spring, they ...

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 ...

If there's a pretty white-flowering tree in front of your house in spring, chances are it's Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana), also known as Callery pear. The white blooms are a welcome sign of spring ...

Flowers and trees are starting to bloom across Ohio, but not all things in bloom are a good thing.The Callery pear tree is starting to bloom across the state and is easy to spot along about any local ...

Spring is a time for blooming plants and flowering trees. But word to the wise: some of those beautiful blooms might come from invasive species. One such plant is the Bradford pear, a tree covered in ...

The Bradford pear, hugely popular when suburbs were developed, contributed to an invasion of trees conquering nearly anywhere it lands. South Carolina is stepping up its fight against it. David Coyle, ...