First, it is important to choose the right type of tree for your soil. While you might prefer to have a flowering fruit tree for edible cherries, such as the Evans Sour Cherry, you cannot plant it unless you have well-drained soil and a plot of land that is in full sunlight. Of course, you can try to plant it, but it will not do well, and the result will be less fruit and more headaches in trying to keep the tree alive. While it may survive in other soil types or in the shade, it will not thrive, and all your work will be for naught. Tree experts in Calgary can help you to test your soil and know whether it will support the type of tree that you envision or whether you need to adjust your expectations.
Once you have planted your flowering fruit tree, you might find that you are not getting the amount of fruit you expected, if any. You may not have realized that some trees rely on other trees of a different variety to pollinate them if they are going to grow fruit. Tree experts in Calgary can tell you what the ideal combinations are. For example, if you have an apple tree, it will need another apple tree or a crabapple tree to cross-pollinate. You can take an exploratory trip around your neighborhood to see if there are any trees nearby that will do the trick. For effective pollination, you should be certain that there is an apple or crabapple tree within a block from your home. This is because pollination occurs when an insect carries pollen from one tree to another, such as a bee who picks up pollen in his pursuit of nectar and can deposit it on the next tree.
If your search around the neighborhood does not turn up other flowering fruit trees or your neighbors all have the same variety of apple that you are wanting to plant, you will need to consider planting two trees of different varieties. While this will double the cost, effort, and space needed to plant a tree, it will ensure that each tree can produce fruit for you and your family.
Like apple trees, pears and plums also need different varieties nearby to cross pollinate. If you are interested in plums, you will definitely need the advice of tree experts in Calgary. These trees are more complex, because the different plum varieties can bloom at different times. You will have to make sure that the right two varieties are present to produce pollen at the same time of year.
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