Re:The Bradford Pear Fiasco
by saagarjha on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:13AM
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A high school friend had one of these in front of his house…it was obviously the butt of many jokes every spring. It's nice to know what kind of tree it actually was after all these years!
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I grew up in a suburb filled with Bradford pears. Every spring, the whole neighborhood smelled.
It wasn't exactly a barren area -- there were plenty of native trees. We had to rip out a lot of maple seedlings that were trying to grow into the foundation of the house or the middle of the lawn. But they went and filled it with Bradford pears anyway.