First, cut out all of the infected branch tips and leaves that you can reach and throw them out with the trash. Next spring, ...

A: This sounds like your tree has fire blight. It’s caused by a bacterium ... mountain ash and Bradford pear. Symptoms often appear one or two weeks after the plant is done blooming.

Hoosier homeowners should be on the lookout for fire blight in pear trees ... like the flowering pear,” Creswell said. The blight is passed from tree to tree by water in open cuts or cracks ...

Provide extra water during dry periods, monitor the tree in spring for signs of fire blight and work with an arborist to treat the pear tree, if needed. It is a good idea to disinfect your pruning ...

In both cases, make sure you rake up and destroy the fallen leaves of the pear tree. Hopefully, next year will be less favorable for fire blight. Q:I am looking for a gardenia for the northern ...

Srdjan Acimovic, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech University, shaves away bark to examine the spread of fire blight in a pear tree branch at Oregon State University’s Southern Oregon ...

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 ...

Fire blight is infecting flowering pear trees in large numbers in Indiana for the third consecutive year with a Purdue Extension specialist again urging homeowners to check their trees for symptoms.