{"id":4825,"date":"2022-03-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wholesumky.org\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:31:02","slug":"uk-to-help-landowners-replace-bradford-pear-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wholesumky.org\/?p=4825","title":{"rendered":"UK to help landowners replace Bradford Pear trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bradford pear trees are popular landscape trees, commonly planted in yards throughout Kentucky. A distant cousin of culinary pears, Bradford is a flowering pear, one cultivar of the Callery pear species. While beautiful when they flower, they are also a curse with the smell of blooms likened to \u201cdead fish,\u201d and its offspring, invasive Callery pear, a growing epidemic in old fields and roadsides.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To help combat these intrusive trees, the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment<\/a>, in partnership with the Remove Invasives Partnership of Franklin County and other local organizations, will host a Bradford Pear Bounty Program Tree Exchange at 9:30 a.m.-noon, March 12 and 17, at the Franklin County Extension office. The free events will allow Kentucky property owners to exchange their Bradford pears for an equal number of free young native replacement trees.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Bradford pear was originally touted as this perfect tree,\u201d said Ellen Crocker,\u00a0UK\u00a0assistant professor of forest health extension in the UK\u00a0Department of Forestry and Natural Resources.\u00a0\u201cIt is a smaller tree with glossy foliage and was supposed to be sterile so it wouldn\u2019t spread out of control. Now we know that its lifespan isn\u2019t that long;\u00a0its branches are extremely delicate;\u00a0the blossoms smell bad,\u00a0and it can cross-pollinate with other\u00a0Callery\u00a0pears and spread out of control.\u201d\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bradford pear trees are popular landscape trees, commonly planted in yards throughout Kentucky. A distant cousin of culinary pears, Bradford is a flowering pear, one cultivar of the Callery pear species. While beautiful when they flower, they are also a curse with the smell of blooms likened to \u201cdead fish,\u201d and its offspring, invasive Callery pear, a growing epidemic in old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[116,261,33],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-conservation","tag-invasive","tag-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t