I was washing my cars with the nice 70s weather and noticed the stinky smell from Euro and Asian pears. @clarkinks
Tony
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Yes i love the flavor of pears but not the smell of the flowers!
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Check out this 4 feet Shinseiki I grafted 2 years ago on a volunteer Cleveland flowering pear seedling and now is full of flowers.
Tony
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If stinky flowers is the biggest problem…sign me up!
Don’t get me wrong, it’s hard to beat a field of citrus in bloom…maybe a coffee orchard in bloom?
But I like fruit way more than flowers personally. 
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I guessed my paw paw flowers are in the same stinky category with the pears.
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Tony! I couldn’t agree more. The scent of the pear is just plain stinky. I avoid the smell when possible. Cannot wait for petal drop and and shuck break.
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Good to know.
I do not want them in my garden then.
I bought star jasmine vine and white sage for good scent.
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We had a meeting at work and the subject of pear flowers came up. Callery pears. One lady in our meeting said she could not stand the smell. When someone asked what the smell was like she said “it smells like sex”.
I was so surprised by that comment that I had to laugh. Maybe sales staff should market callery pears as “the sex tree?”.
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Another reason Bradford is the most overused landscape tree ever.
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I would say it smells Musky.
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Where I work (Nashville) the Bradford Pears are in full bloom! At home they are a week or more behind them. I guess that could be the reason that they are in Zone 7a and I am in Zone 6b 
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