Spring is when nature tells everyone that while winter was a good rest, it’s time to get back to blooming flowers, bees buzzing, and lawn mowers running.
Over the past 10 years, spring in the woods has been signaled by a ubiquitous white flowing tree that can fill the understory of the forest. The culprit is a nasty invasive plant, which became one of the most popular landscape trees available − the Bradford pear.
The Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’) is fast growing, has almost perfect form, great fall color, and explosive blooms in the spring. But buyers beware: If it is too good to be true, it probably is…