Like apples, it's important to learn how to prune pear trees to encourage the best crop every year. They're recommended by Morris Hankinson, director of Hopes Groves Nurseries.

Pruning in July allows room for tender annuals and perennials to flourish in borders.

Do you see patches of dark, almost black foliage on your ornamental pear trees? Are the branch tips turning black and wilting into a “shepherd’s crook shape? Are the fruit turning black ...

Bradford pear trees stink... literally. But there are many other reasons you will want to remove this invasive, ...

The Chanticleer Callery pear tree was selected "Urban Tree of the Year" for 2005 by respondents to the arborist magazine City Trees.

Fireblight is spread to susceptible trees by bees (disappointing, I know). During flowering, honeybees carry infectious pollen from one tree to another.

They can be infected, but unfortunately not killed by the disease. If you look at an ornamental pear, you’ll often see blackened branch tips similar to what you’re seeing on your Asian pear.