Grumpy helps a reader deal with their diseased pear tree. Plus, the plant of the week. "Do you know what causes some of my pear trees, leaves and branches to turn brown and die? It still produces ...

Watch for blackened blossoms, leaves and branches on pear trees. Fire blight is a bacterial disease that occurs to some extent each year. Incidence ranges from mild to severe. The affected plant ...

Last year on Facebook, we made a tongue-in-cheek post about Bradford pear trees, suggesting the proper way to prune a Bradford was to get your chainsaw and make a horizontal cut, flush with the ground ...