In this Daily Herald article, Dave Kitz from Davey's Glen Ellyn office explains that Bradford pear trees are invasive and should be removed from yards.
Dave Kitz has a meme on how to "trim" a Bradford pear tree: the photo shows a chainsaw cutting a towering, white-flowered tree off at the trunk.
Kitz loves trees. But as an arborist with the Lombard-based Davey Tree, he doesn't like the Bradford so much.
"If you need to eradicate it from a woodlot, it becomes dangerous. It is hand-to-hand combat" because of the large, hazardous thorns grown by a tree gone wild, Kitz said.
It's the growing wild part that has caused problems.
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