Bark – Light brown/gray; at maturity, bark has horizontal lenticels. The flowering pear (Pyrus calleryana), also commonly called Bradford or Callery pear, is native to East and Southeast Asia and was ...

using Epsom salts to improve shrub flowering (nope!), or applying corn gluten to control weeds (sorry, wrong again), these hangers-on refuse to die. The Callery pear, or Bradford pear, is one of ...

Callery pears’ ability to cross-pollinate is why ... and Missouri’s state tree, the flowering dogwood. Hawthorns provide bountiful fruit and attractive fall color, while dogwoods thrive ...

As a group they are often referred to as ornamental pears, Callery pear, or are simply lumped into a single category called ‘Bradford’ pears. ‘Bradford’ was the first cultivar and ...