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 ...

Bradford pear trees stink... literally. But there are many other reasons you will want to remove this invasive, tire-puncturing tree from your property.

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.

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.

Once its ornamental value and hardiness were recognized in the 1950s, the Callery pear was used to develop cultivars, including the Bradford pear tree, according to the University of Illinois ...

Fireblight on an ornamental pear tree. (Photo by Laura Simpson) By Laura Simpson | [email protected]. UPDATED: October 17, 2023 at 6:00 PM PDT. Q.

Callery pear trees line a street in Kansas City, Missouri. The popular ornamental species is highly invasive, harming birds and insects.

Starting in the 1960s, Callery pear has been widely planted as a street and ornamental tree. Pennsylvania is at the northernmost edge of its invasion front, with the species being well established ...