cross-pollination

Looking at buying a fruit tree? It's one of the best moves you'll ever make. Not only will they eventually provide a bountiful harvest for your family, fruit trees also do a great environmental service by providing food and habitat for essential pollinators. In addition, they look stunning! But to make them as productive as possible, you need to know...

We think flowers are just there to look pretty, but for the plant, they are how they reproduce themselves. If you've got flowers but no fruit on your fruit trees, chances are you're missing a vital piece of the puzzle: pollination.   A bee pollinating a plum blossom. Pollen basics Most flowers contain male and female parts, which are usually...