Bradford pear? Beware!

If you’ve driven through our area over the past two weeks, you have definitely seen at least one tree with white flowers. Those trees are ornamental pears. Ornamental pears are the pear equivalent of crabapples, close relatives of the fruiting pear that are prized less for their food production and more for their ornamental qualities. Breeders have developed many varieties, by far the most co...

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