Why are garden centres also known as nurseries?

because most of the plants/trees there are not adult forms...they are the babies thus you get nurseries

Why are garden centres also known as nurseries?
A tree nursery is a place where trees are grown from seed. Garden centres sell plants. If a garden centre is also known as a nursery, then it means that they sell the plants they grow there. Some garden centres sell plants imported in from other nurseries and therefore cannot call themselves a nursery.
Reply:There is a slight difference. A nursery is a large area of ground and not only has open ground but has greenhouses that grow plants to a certain size then delivers them to garden centres. A garden centre is where you buy the plants and it also has a garden shop.
Reply:Nurseries used to sell just young plants, they have morphed into places that sell all outdoor stuff but many people still refer to the old name.





young = nursery
Reply:Plants are grown...hence nurseries....
Reply:Because the plants and flowers start off as babies, nursed until they are grown and then are sold when they are full adults.
Reply:because its a place where they have baby plants, sorry feeling a bit silly this afternoon, it is usually where they grow plants from seed, so you buy them as young plants
Reply:Hi Kerrie.





A Garden Centre normally sells, plants, tools, garden products and everything and anything remotely linked (or not) to gardening. They also may or may not grow the plants that they sell themselves. They may buy them in from a commercial nursery.





Nurseries SHOULD be places that grow plants and sell the plants that they sell. As pointed out they are called nurseries because they deal in young/baby plants. As also pointed out, they have developed in many cases to sell a whole range of other gardening goods as well.





You could say that commercial growers run "nurseries" for the trade and others run "garden centres" for the public, but this isn't always the case.





Hope that may help shed a little more light.
Reply:Maybe because they nurse seedlings/baby plants on and then sell them??