The Bradford pear tree, with its fluffy white early-spring blossoms, is a looker. Even the tree's putrid aroma emitted at full-bloom hasn't kept it from becoming a go-to ornamental option for ...

As spring settles in, Alabama's landscape bursts with vibrant blooms and rich greenery. However, one blossom doesn't add to the sweet floral fragrance of the season. If your outdoor area carries a ...

ST. LOUIS — Spring has officially returned to the Show Me State. Flowering plants are beginning to bloom, and that all-too-familiar rotting fish smell is starting to fill the air — the scent of ...

Callery pear trees line a street in Kansas City, Missouri. This species, popular for its flowers, is a healthy part of nature in its native Asia. But it becomes highly invasive in North America, ...

Flowers and trees are starting to bloom across Ohio, but not all things in bloom are a good thing.The Callery pear tree is starting to bloom across the state and is easy to spot along about any local ...

SOUTH BEND — Callery pear trees stink. In more ways than one. If you consult several posters on the Facebook page South Bend Community Forum, they suggest the aroma of doggie doo. “I checked my shoes, ...

Spring has sprung and gardeners are digging in. Got questions as you carry on? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

Q: There is a tree in bloom outside my office and I’m wondering what it is. It has white/green blossoms and looks like a pear tree but doesn’t smell like a fruit tree. It sort of smells like sewage.

Q. I have an Asian pear that I planted several years ago but it has never fruited. This spring it had lots of blooms, but it still doesn’t look like it has set any fruit. Can you tell me what is wrong ...

The Bradford pear was the best tree — glorious blooms in spring and fiery foliage in the fall, fast growing, not too tall. In the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture envisioned cities with the ...

Pino Dutto, left, was the first Medford Alba Sister City Association ambassador to visit Medford in 1963 when he was 25 years old. One of the Rogue Valley’s biggest events of the year returns to ...

POTTSTOWN — Despite some spring showers, the borough’s first-ever celebration of the pear blossoms on Beech Street was held Sunday, April 6, at the tree park at the corner of Beech and North Charlotte ...