Frequently Asked Questions

All fruit trees are pollinated by other trees of the same general type (apples pollinate other apples regardless of differences in the variety of apples and so on).  There are some minor variances in this as some trees can be self-fertile. 

In theory if you live in the suburbs and there is another tree of the same fruit type within a few hundred metres, you won't need to ensure pollination on your own block.

If you're not too sure you can assist pollination by planting more than one of the same type of trees, or if you are short of space, you can multi-graft (ie put more than one variety of apple on the one tree).  If you check out our Fruit Database you will see that we're building a list of what sort of varities pollinate what other varities. 

The main thing you have to watch out for is that all the trees flower at roughly the same time in the season (ie there's no point in having an early and a late flower as the flower's won't be available at the same time for the bees to move to and from on).