Q. What are the small trees flowering around town? They're covered in white blooms. A. The evergreen pear, one of the first to flower each year, is in bloom. This semi-evergreen, Pyrus kawakami, ...

Evergreen pear trees are in full bloom, and new green sprouts are showing up on deciduous tree branches that were barren just a few weeks ago. It’s as if Mother Nature set a wake-up alarm. Trees are a ...

Quick, check the calendar. Spring doesn’t start until March 20, but there’s a tree in the L.A. area that’s pushing that date to ... right now. There’s one other thing: The flowers stink. Unlike ...