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Suitable replacements for the invasive flowering pear trees  Billy Joe Fudge has long been an advocate for better stewardship of the countryside, with the Kieffer or Old Fashioned Pear Trees as an icon embracing a longterm management of our woodlands, and especially the urban forest. There are many kindred spirits. This column has a number of links to his works in his Kentucky Color series. Along the way, we've also found Pear Tree Chronicles, Album: 2010 in life of century old tree, about a pear tree in Gradyville, written by Sharon Whitehurst. Billy Joe Fudge thinks it's time for a new emphasis to put our energies promoting trees with old fashioned values.It looks like Billy Joe Fudge is right again, or so it would seem from listening to comments. He's an advocate for old fashioned pears, like the one at left he photographed on Lindsey Wilson Colleges A.P. White Campus six years ago, at left He's noted that Bradford and Cleveland Pears have turned out to be invasive and a an invasive species, pretty as they are at times. (See Billy Joe Fudge: On pear trees, stay with native species.) This morning, John Chowning of Amandaville, Campbellsville, and Saloma, sent a link to a story: The beautiful flowering pear tree is taking over, literally in the Lexington Leader, which serves up parallel thoughts. Billy Joe Fudge has presented alternatives: 1) For ornamental trees, plant more dogwoods and redbuds. 2) For something real, lasting, and good tasting, old fashioned pear trees. His Kentucky Color Series includes a paen to the old time pear, in Kentucky Color - IncomPEARable This story was posted on 2016-03-31 06:56:24
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