In 2023, it will be illegal to sell or plant all varieties of Callery pear trees in the state, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

A: Ornamental flowering pear trees are everywhere in the South. There are several varieties that can have different mature shapes and slightly different bloom patterns.

The flowering pear tree is a visual headline signaling the return of spring and approach of summer. But this year, it’s making another headline -- as an invasive species.

What we are getting in their place are other varieties of ornamental pears that are much stronger structurally, and as time goes on ornamental pear structural failures are going to slip into the ...

A solution is to plant better ornamental pear varieties like Cleveland Select. These superior pear trees were developed as replacements for the Bradford. The newer varieties have alternating ...

The ornamental pears don’t pollinate among themselves, but the promiscuous pears pollinate with other varieties, and have proliferated across the county.

(WTHR) — Ornamental pear trees, also known as Bradford pears, are overcrowding native Indiana trees. That's according to the Department of Natural Resources who said “over time different varieties of ...

She says that over time the different varieties of the ornamental pear trees have cross-pollinated and that’s allowed them “to rapidly spread into our natural resources.” ...

Commonly called Bradford or Cleveland pear, these trees have escaped our landscapes and now displace native trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals.

In 2023, it will be illegal to sell or plant all varieties of Callery pear trees in the state, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.