Bradford Pear Trees

[alicia-w]

I'm posting this here and will put it in the hurricane forum too but here goes....

Ivan blew a considerable number of leaves from some young bradford pear trees in our area. yesterday, i noticed them blooming! Is that result of the hurricane? I've NEVER seen them do that before!!! Any ideas?

[breeze]

That's really strange, alicia! My experience with
Bradford Pears, over 10 years old, is, the limbs
break like Hel....er....Hades, in strong wind!

Blooming? In Fall? I've never seen this strange
behavior!

[Miss Mary]

Alicia - that is strange but Bradford Pears are both susceptible to wind damage and I imagine now resilent too! We discussed this tree quite a bit a year ago here at Storm2K so I found the links for you...

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=8727

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=9732

Mary

[ssmith]

Not really odd,I have seen them do the same,the temps must be a little warmer than usual,and yes I saw the same after Issy went though SoEastVa last year.
Sam

[Wnghs2007]

Yeah, its not to unusual. Ivan came thru here and game me gusts to 75 mph. THe whole house was rocking. And afterwards I went outside and half of the leaves on the trees were gone. So it got warm again and they rebloomed.