As pretty as they are. I'm hoping they take over behind my back yard and in a hurry. There must be 100 ash trees between me and the road behind my house that are all firewood. I plan on spending a few bucks on some fruit trees closer to the house.

 

$22 apple and dwarf peach trees at Meijer...get to it

So all trees blooming white right now are these?

 

Dogwoods bloom purple and white don't they?

So all trees blooming white right now are these?

 

Dogwoods bloom purple and white don't they?

 

Dogwoods bloom a bit later...usually start opening up right around Mother's Day, give or take.

I've noticed a lot more bradford pears this year than anytime before.

Dogwoods bloom a bit later...usually start opening up right around Mother's Day, give or take.

Dogwoods bloom during the Keeneland meet - pretty much throughout April in central Kentucky.

So all trees blooming white right now are these?

 

Dogwoods bloom purple and white don't they?

 

Boone County Arboretum recommends "Wada's Memory" Magnolia and says they bloom at the exact same time as the pears.

We have one as do our neighbors in the front yard. They smell awful in spring and hold their leafs till February. We shovel snow and they are still hanging strong on the tree

Granted, this was after a freezing rain, but this tree also split during the summer when it got too heavy.

 

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I love Bradford Pears. We have planted one in the yard of every home we have ever lived in. Sadly, after a few years, they all ended up like this.

I ditched the Bradford in favor of Cleveland Pears.

Any war on these trees is over - the Bradford Pear Trees have won.

So if I cut any trees blooming white right now, it will be this type of tree?

I ditched the Bradford in favor of Cleveland Pears.

 

For what it's worth, the Cleveland pear is still a cultivar of the Chinese/Vietnamese callery pear species, and contributes to the invasive aspect of the trees. There is so little genetic difference from one to the next that botanically speaking, they are all considered the same species: pyrus calleryana.

So if I cut any trees blooming white right now, it will be this type of tree?

 

I saw a figure somewhere that in the midwest, there are 2500 invasive Bradford/Callery pear trees for every other white blossoming tree out there right now. There are also a couple types of Magnolia trees that flower a bit earlier than the others, one of which was noted above. Magnolias can easily be differentiated by the size of their white blossoms - which are 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 inches across. That is considerably larger than the blossoms of wild plums and Callery pears, which are aroun 3/4 inch across.

 

The fact is, you can cut down all the white blossoming trees you want right now, and chances are, you'll never even see anything that isn't a Callery/Bradford pear.

Birds eat the tree fruits and poop them everywhere. Seeds grow and trees become invasive.

 

Damn birds.

So if I cut any trees blooming white right now, it will be this type of tree?

 

I have cherry trees that are blooming white right now, are these an issue?