Is your fruit tree looking sick or bearing bad fruit? Fruit tree diseases are common: Here's how to identify the problem so you can effectively treat your tree.

Pears are one of the most popular fruit trees to grow around the world and growing a pear tree in your garden allows you to harvest juicy and sweet fruits that surpass any you will find in grocery ...

Make those disease-resistant varieties such as Moonglow and Honeysweet, ... If you’re wondering whether you’re up to the challenge of growing fruit trees, start with two pear trees.

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.

The Chanticleer Callery pear tree was selected "Urban Tree of the Year" for 2005 by respondents to ... it is disease resistant, exceptionally ... have the ability to grow fruit that produces ...

Gardeners with apple or pear trees are being warned to check them in January for a potentially deadly disease. Alan Buckingham, author of Allotment Month By Month, advises in the January section ...

Trees left unpruned are more susceptible to pests and diseases and produce less fruit. ... For instance, if your apple, pear or plum tree has coddling moth, he recommends Cyd-X, ...

The first broad introduction of the Callery pear in the U.S. was in 1916 after pear orchards in Oregon were ravaged by a bacterial disease known as fire blight.

Bradford pear trees are a variety of the Callery pear, which was introduced to the U.S. from Asia in the early 1900s in an attempt to fight fire blight, a disease that affected common pear trees.

The purchase and sale of Bradford pear trees became illegal in S.C. on Oct. 1, 2024. The trees are now under the state's "do not sell" list. New regulations will not affect plants already growing ...