Just cut down the pear tree in my front yard about 9-10 months ago...honestly I hated that thing. It stank, it dropped all kinds of junk in the yard, it killed my grass, and every wind storm that came up resulted in a yard clean up from fallen sticks, leaves, and branches...once so bad that I had a limb fall across the neighbor's hedges and i had to clean it all up. That was bad. I don't miss having it at all, but they are pretty so I'll say that at least!