The tree quickly became a favorite in landscaping for its adaptability, its flowering color and its rounded crown. This March 10, 2022, image provided by Kelly Oten Shows a "Bradford" callery pear ...

The dank smell of the ornamental pear blossom attracts honey bees and flies, specifically, hover flies. And there's a good, but smelly, reason.

The Bradford pear tree, with its fluffy white early-spring blossoms, is a looker.Even the tree's putrid aroma emitted at full-bloom hasn't kept it from becoming a go-to ornamental option for ...

It’s the perfect time of year to do birds and butterflies a solid — by killing an invasive, ornamental and all-too-common pear tree. This April and May, if you live in or near Kansas City and ...

This ornamental pear tree has trunk damage, and if not removed, it likely will fall. Courtesy image. Q: This summer the right side of my tree looked shorter and less filled out than the left side.

Bradford pear trees are a pretty sight, but they produce a pretty foul odor. They're also illegal in Ohio. ... The Callery pear tree is an ornamental species native to China and Vietnam.

Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana) were introduced by the United States Department of Agriculture as ornamental landscape trees in the mid-1960s, USA TODAY reports.

Introduced in the 1960s from several Asian countries, the white-flowered ornamental trees were once a favorite for landscaping but have now gotten a bad reputation for invading native species ...

Ornamental pear trees are illegal to sell or plant in Ohio, but there is no requirement to cut down existing trees. Since January 2023, it is illegal in Ohio to plant or sell ornamental pear trees.

CINCINNATI — Blooming trees and flowers are a classic sign of spring, but one flowering tree actually causes an ugly invasive problem. Bradford Pear trees are easy to spot in Ohio, with many ...