Reno’s least favorite tree, the Bradford pear, is back in full bloom.
The City of Reno’s Urban Forestry Commission cares for 2,137 Bradford pear trees. That makes it the most common publicly maintained tree in the city, at about 8% of the total inventory.
That doesn’t factor in the thousands more that grow on private property in the city. And for a few weeks each spring, they’re utterly offensive to everyone within sniffing distance…