Q. I generally leave a lot of the garden/ yard work to my hubby; however, I’ve become concerned – as is he – about the health of our Asian Pear tree. The branches have become all black as have most ...

Fireblight has been on the increase in the Denver metro area. It is a difficult disease to control and can kill the trees it infects, typically apples, crabapples, and mountain ash, and other species, ...

Anyone growing Asian pear or Bartlett European pear should be on the lookout for fireblight disease, which has been rearing its ugly head over the past couple of weeks. The strong winds are a big part ...

This spring has provided ideal conditions for fire blight attacks on local pear trees and other susceptible plants. Fire blight is a bacterial disease that is often devastating to both ornamental and ...

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Q: I have a gnarly pear tree specimen that is an important tree in the design of my garden. The fruit look like Bartletts. However, it has serious fireblight. My tree man says it's time to cut it down ...

If you are noticing droopy, dried-out flower clusters on your pears, Asian pears, quince, apples or crabapples, fire blight may be the cause. Fire blight is caused by a bacterium and is a common and ...

We have a 7-year-old Asian pear that does not bear fruit. It has been flowering in the fall. Any suggestions? Asian pears have been grown in China and Japan for about 3,000 years. They are rounded, ...

Fireblight, a bacterial disease that infects many trees and shrubs in the rose family, showed such a horrendous degree of infection this year that I wrote two columns on it last spring (May 16 and 30) ...

The Bradford pear tree in our front yard has not been looking good this year. Some sections of the tree appear to have died, and the bark is coming off of large sections of the trunk. It also lost its ...