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A daycare for future furniture, oxygen, and shade, with better soil.
means A place where young trees and plants are grown and tended until they're sturdy enough to be sold or transplanted elsewhere.
from 'Nursery' traces back through French 'norture'/'nourriture' to Latin 'nutrire,' meaning to nourish or suckle — the same root behind 'nurse' and 'nutrition.' It first meant a place for rearing infants, and by extension, in the 1600s, English gardeners borrowed the word for grounds where young plants were raised before being 'weaned' off to permanent soil — a nursery for seedlings instead of babies.
- grow timeline
- Trees often spend 2 to 5 years here first
- root pruning
- Roots clipped early so they transplant without sulking
- grafting hub
- Many fruit trees are two species surgically combined here
- climate math
- Stock is chosen for your zone, not their preference