The Fruit Tree Foundation have people who sound like that in the project." The Fruit Tree Foundation The Fruit Tree Foundation is a Scottish musical project founded by Idlewild guitarist Rod Jones and former Delgados vocalist and guitarist Emma Pollock in 2010. Created in conjunction with the Mental Health Foundation, the project's overall aim is to "raise awareness of mental health and challenge perceptions of mental health problems by creating great art." To date, the project has organised a number of live concerts, and released one studio album, "First Edition" (2011), featuring contributions from a number of notable Scottish musicians including members of Frightened
Fruit tree pollination for apple trees, although members of the genera "Andrena", "Bombus", "Halictus", and "Osmia" pollinate apple trees in the wild. Solitary bees such as ground-nesting mining bees ("Andrena") may play a far bigger role in pollination than at one time suspected. Bumble bees are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators; in the home garden with only a few trees, their role may be much greater. Increasingly Orchard bees (spring mason bees) are being used in fruit tree pollination. According to British writer Christopher O'Toole in his book "The Red Mason Bee", "Osmia rufa"