SEYMOUR, Tenn. — They’re a nuisance during the spring across East Tennessee and they're known for their pungent scent. It's not a bug — instead, Bradford pear trees have continually been the focus of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Bradford pear tree is a tale of good intentions gone bad. This common flowering tree does have ...

All those white blooming trees you see everywhere... do you think they are pretty? If you knew what they actually represent, you would choke on your morning coffee and gag on your scrambled eggs. All ...

Q: We had a Bradford pear that suddenly, with no warning at all, fell over in a brisk windstorm last March. It could have fallen onto our house, into the neighbor’s fence, or over our landscape, so at ...

Have you gone on a walk around your neighborhood recently? If so, you may have stumbled across a big, beautiful, white-flowered tree. Then, when you got a little closer, you may have thought, "why ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture brought the Callery pear tree, commonly known as the Bradford pear, to the U.S. from Asia in 1917 to make pear trees more resistant to disease. It soon became a ...

OR SOMETHING, RIGHT? LIKE, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, BUDDY? MANY OF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SPRING ALLERGIES RIGHT NOW, AND ONE OF THE MANY CULPRITS ARE BRADFORD PEAR TREES. ALTHOUGH THEY’RE PRETTY WHEN ...

FISHERS, Ind. — Their bright white — and sometimes stinky — blooms are currently popping up across central Indiana, and one county is working to get rid of them. Conservationists are again speaking ...