"Whoever thought planting them was a good idea deserves to have their car totaled by one in a mild breeze," one woman wrote.

The Bradford pear (Pyrus callerana "Bradford") was originally developed as a way to help control fire blight in pear trees. Fire blight can be a devastating bacterial disease in fruit trees. In the ...

With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting into bloom. Now’s the time to get your pruning ...

The profusion of tangled branches on an unpruned apple tree can look confusing to a beginner. Get started by making six basic ...

The city of Herculaneum and a few other online sources have recently posted helpful tips for pruning Bradford pear trees.

When pruning large limbs off trees, begin with an undercut first. This is a cut from the bottom up, about one-third of the way through the limb, 4 inches or so away from the main trunk.

No matter what the reason, pruning is best done in the proper season and it’s not always spring. Here are eight kinds of trees that should not be pruned in spring. Cutting back trees when they ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across ...