If you long to diversify your land by planting an apple tree, you will find that most apple varieties require cross-pollination by honeybees in order to bear fruit. This requires planting at least ...

Growing fruit trees in ... with certain varieties of apples, such as Gravenstein and Jonagold, their pollen is sterile and hence will not pollinate any other apple tree, so you can’t rely ...

I recently moved into a new home that had several fruit ... trees for pollination). They are what horticulturalists call self-fertile. The tree varieties that will need a pollinizer are apples ...

So, though I can't grow figs here, apples are a pretty good alternative. Interestingly, fig trees are one of the exceptions to the fruit cross-pollination rule, as Amanda wrote last summer ...