Making It Grow Minute

Local Clemson Extension agents can advise you of a bounty on invasive Bradford pears – more correctly called callery pears – if you bring a picture showing you cut down a tree, you’ll get a native tree to take home as a replacement.

This offspring of the Bradford pear not only spreads like crazy, it also has treacherous thorns.

This offspring of the Bradford pear not only spreads like crazy, it also has treacherous thorns.

The saga of the rampant Bradford pear continues...

The saga of the rampant Bradford pear continues...

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

The search for a pear tree that would withstange fire blight.

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Chalk maple, Acer leucoderme, is a smaller maple native to the south east…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. Trips to New England in the fall must be delightful – you get to wear a…