Pear tree Archives

How to improve cross-pollination

It’s easy to enhance and improve cross-pollination for your target species. These different tips will help you cross-pollinate plants.

Pruning plants like shrubs, fruit trees, rose trees…

Although plants survive in nature without being pruned, this practice is often needed to increase flowering or fruit formation.

Which fruit trees will do best in my garden?

Growing space, climate, altitude, soil quality are additional factors to consider when choosing the fruit tree that will enhance your garden.

Choosing the Right Fruit Trees For Your Climate

Pruning apple and pear trees

Winter and the very beginning of spring are the most auspicious season for pruning a pear tree and an apple tree.

Bradford pear, from beloved to banished – keep a lookout for it!

Bradford pear, or Pyrus calleryana, used to be all the hype in ornamental gardens throughout the United States and Europe. Today, common sense labels it for what it is: an invasive tree that’s

Storing pears over winter and more

Starting in September, October and sometimes even November if the climate is mild enough, pears are harvested. Learn to store and keep them well.

Pear tree, care from planting and pruning to harvesting pears

Pear tree is the most common fruit tree in many orchards.

Pear health benefits and therapeutic value

The pear tree or (Pyrus communis) is one of the most popular fruit trees, know to mankind since prehistorical times.

Espalier training for apple and pear (2-minute video)

Apple and pear trees are regularly pruned to promote fruit-bearing. Did you know that shapes like palmette or espalier are more adapted to trees planted along a line or set against a wall? Here is a video on how to easily prune orchard fruit trees into palmette or espalier. Read more ►

Winter pruning of pip fruit trees

Although pruning is definitely a human invention, and trees can go without it to develop naturally, it presents the advantage of renewing the plant’s vigor and increasing its fruit productivity.

Willow-leaf pear, a beautiful ornamental fruit tree with wispy leaves

This smallish pear tree has a bearing and leaves that closely resemble those of the weeping willow. Willow-leaf pear key facts Name – Pyrus salicifolia Family – Rosaceae Type – tree Height – 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 m) Exposure – full sun, part sun Soil – ordinary Foliage – deciduous Flowering – March-April Wispy leaves and sometimes weeping branches make willow-leaf pear a great ornamental […]

Pruning an apple tree or pear tree into an espalier shape

Pruning apple and pear trees to espalier or palmette is an interesting way to raise fruit productivity for apples and pears, and also to cover a wall.

Espalier pruning maximizes yields for apple and pear trees.

Fruit-inducing pruning, how to produce more fruit

Fruit inducing pruning is an important step in the growth of your fruit tree and gives you control over its productivity.

Ornamental pear tree – how to care for it

An ornamental pear tree is a tree that bears cute flowers at the beginning of spring.

Bradford pear, the calleryana pear tree that went from true love to hate

A short-lived species in the Pear family, Bradford pear (Pyrus calleryana) bears particularly abundant blooms in early Spring. Bradford pear key facts Name – Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’ Family – Rosaceae Type – tree Height – 30 to 50 feet (9 to 15 m) Exposure – full and part sun Soil – no special requirements Foliage – deciduous Flowering – March to […]

Wonderful white blooming of the Bradford pear tree

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