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Message: [QUOTE="Gemma, post: 303825, member: 4161"] So unfortunately my 3yr old Peach tree died this year, leaving my nectarine tree without a companion for pollination. My nectarine tree is self fertile, but the nursery advised me on adding a "companion tree" and that was the peach tree that died. I started researching for replacing the dead tree but as usual I ran into a wall of contradictions. Some articles say all my self fertile tree needs are other plants that attract pollinators. It clearly states that a plum tree or a lavender plant even, can be paired with my Nectarine due to the fact that it is self fertile, other articles say it must be another variety of the same species. Then there is the blooming time to consider and even here no one seems to agree, some say to choose a tree that blooms at the same time (make sense to me) other advise to chose staggering bloom time to prolong pollinators attraction. So in all my reading I came to the conclusion that the difference in opinion is because one side believes that to properly pollinate a "self fertile" tree, a pollinator has to go from the blooms of one tree, to the blooms of the other tree and mix pollen, I believe that's true for "non self fertile " trees, and the other side believes pollinators has to jump from one bloom to another of the same tree, if that's the case I do not need to add a second tree, cause of the other fruit trees near by.... What do you suggest I do? [/QUOTE]