Plant two pear varieties for best pollination. The flowers of most pear varieties can't pollinate themselves. Instead, they must cross-pollinate with a different variety to develop fruit. A different ...

Pear trees can be roughly divided into two types: European and Asian. This distinction is not just about origin but also the fruit they produce. Fruit from Asian pears is usually crunchy and round or ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! It is hard to believe this is the last week of April. Hopefully, most of the cold weather is behind us as we experienced two very chilling nights this week ...

Callery pear trees, though once popular, are now illegal to plant, grow or sell in Ohio due to their invasive nature. The trees spread easily as birds eat their fruit and disperse the seeds widely.

More than 300 hundred years ago, a court painter to the Medici dynasty assembled all the pear varieties he could find growing in Tuscany and recorded them for his patron. Pears that were steely gray, ...

Oregon State University assistant professor Kelsey Galimba looks over Gem variety pears at the Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hood River. She is part of a team researching ...

Wondering what trees to plant in February? We're nearing the end of the dormant season for bare-root trees, but there's still ...

Laura Stenseth got the notion to grow her own pears more than a decade ago. Why trek to the grocery store when you can pluck one off a tree in the front yard? This good question — Laura describes ...

Main Street in downtown Joplin last week signaled spring's arrival — its flowering trees were in bloom. As of Monday, the white petals of trees between the 300 and 600 blocks of Main Street were ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As warm weather returns, so does a distinctive springtime odor that many liken to rotting fish. The overwhelming aroma is the result of an invasive species that is illegal to ...