If you have grown pears before, you have surely noticed dead twigs, dead branches, and even entirely dead trees depending on the cultivar. During wet, disease-splashing years, fire blight is generally ...

A bacteria called fire blight seems to be nailing Bradford pears and loquats this spring. Fire blight attacks plants in the Rosaceae family which include apples, plum, cherries, hawthorn, photinia, ...

Do you see patches of dark, almost black foliage on your ornamental pear trees? Are the branch tips turning black and wilting into a “shepherd’s crook shape? Are the fruit turning black, shriveling ...