Can Nursery be called a Garden?

[Farhan Ahmed]

Plant nurseries have all the things that apparently our gardens have....
Plants....Seeds and seedlings
All possible growing activities are carried out there.
All gardening activities/chores are carried out there
They are arranged in some order as well and sometimes in a very good manner to attract buyers....

can they be called gardens then?

[M Farooq]

Plant nurseries have all the things that apparently our gardens have....
Plants....Seeds and seedlings
All possible growing activities are carried out there.
All gardening activities/chores are carried out there
They are arranged in some order as well and sometimes in a very good manner to attract buyers....

can they be called gardens then?

Hmm, I guess not :-) because nurseries are supposed to sell young plants/ trees, whereas there is no restriction on the age of our plants in the garden.

[Munir]

Farhan & Farooq, please keep things simple.

[M Farooq]

Farhan & Farooq, please keep things simple.

:-) Sorry about my rambling... at times it is good to discuss abstract things

[Tahir Khan]

well... it can be called a 'diverse greenhouse' but people like us make gardens who give home to plants not the ones who sell them off for profits..

[Farhan Ahmed]

Hmmmm Farooq Sb & Tahir Sb......meaningby you are saying that other than all the gardening activities.....there is something else which is required for a plant collection to be a garden........

What is that thing......????

[M Farooq]

Hmmmm Farooq Sb & Tahir Sb......meaningby you are saying that other than all the gardening activities.....there is something else which is required for a plant collection to be a garden........

What is that thing......????

Lets see the most authentic multivolume OED dictionary definition for a nursery:

A place where young plants or trees are grown until fit for transplantation; a collection of such plants (obsolete). In later use also: a place where plants are grown to be sold; a garden centre.

The Earliest known use: 1556, J. Withals Short Dict. A nourserye, or place, wherein groweth, or be kepte to increase yonge vines or trees

Then a garden is defined by OED as "An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit, or vegetables"

So business is associated with a nursery.

[Muhammad Arif Khan]

A nursery can be a section of a garden and not vice versa.

[rafique]

Gardens usually evolve from nurseries.....
Nursery is transit for plants, waiting to be part of some garden.

[Farhan Ahmed]

@ Rafique Sb......hmmm interesting thought. One question exclusively from you

If i buy 100 plants from a nursery(their transit place) and plant/place in pot at my backyard.....will my backyard become a garden instantly? Please choose one option

a) Yes
b) No

BTW both are correct in their way. I just want to know your opinion.