If you want to grow a pear tree that produces fruit indoors, then it’s best to choose dwarf varieties. “Avoid cultivars that ...

They also provide year-round visual interest. Growing a pear tree gives you sweet fruit and year-round beauty with very little maintenance required. For success, choose the right variety for your ...

A stunning and very popular pear tree is set to be banned in Kansas because they are growing 'so aggressively' that agricultural officials fear it will eventually damage natural ecosystems. Callery ...

I sometimes think of the pear as a sort of Cinderella fruit in this country. Lots of people grow apples in their gardens, but the pear remains a footnote – something we might get round to one day and ...

A research team has developed a high-precision 3D analysis framework that reveals, for the first time, the quantitative rules ...

Over the years I have grown and trained quite a few espalier pears, which are those trained to grow laterally in tiers of branches from either side of the main stem. But the first espaliers here at ...

Why go to all the bother of growing your own fruit,” people ask, “when you can just buy it instead?” Well it’s true: you can have Australian apples all year round, but when the first Cox’s Orange ...

Whether you have inherited a pear tree or planted one yourself, knowing when to prune it is the key to maintaining a long-lasting and healthy crop. Understanding the processes involved in the growth ...

By aligning three-dimensional point clouds of the same trees across consecutive growing seasons, the team was able to accurately identify which shoots ...