NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — One of the state’s most popular, flowering ornamental trees could be its most dangerous. Conservation officials in Hamilton, Marion, Hendricks, Boone and Johnson ...

Bradford and other callery pear species have been banned for sale in Ohio. Plenty of native replacements can provide spring blooms in your Northeast Ohio garden.

It was pretty, it was free of insect problems and resistant to fireblight, a bacterial disease that had decimated orchards of European pear trees in the United States.

What trees to plant instead of Bradford pears Bradford pear trees are beautiful, but they are also smelly, invasive and threaten local species. That's why Ohio banned them.

When Bradford pear was introduced as an ornamental in 1964 by the US Department of Agriculture, it was known then that this tree possessed the weakest branch structure in nature.

No two Bradford pears will ever reproduce among themselves, but they do cross pollinate with every other pear tree out there, including the Cleveland Select pear trees that were meant to be the ...

Beetle wreaking havoc on Hanover ash trees Because of Bradfords' structural issues, Lower recommends the Cleveland select, which offers a stronger trunk.

I am not advocating additional planting of oriental pear trees but want to tell the truth about these trees.