The nursery occurs as place in which plants are propagated and grown to usable size. There are retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to more nurseries & to commercial landscape gardeners, and personal nurseries which supply a needs of institutions or even personal estates. A bit of retail & sweeping nurseries sell by mail.

Nurseries develop annuals, perennials, and woody plants (trees and shrubs). These have a kind of utilizes: ornamental plants for flower gardening and landscaping, garden vegetable plants, and agricultural plants. A bit of nurseries specialize witharound 1 phase of the run: propagation, growing retired, or even even retail low; or in of these nature and severity of plant: groundcovers, shade plants, fruit trees, or rock garden plants.

Annuals come sold around trays (undivided containers using multiple plants), flats (trays sustaining built-inherent cells), peat pots, or even polymer pots. Perennials & woody plants come sold either around pots or even bare-root & around the kind of sizes, from either liners to mature trees.

Plants can be propagated by seeds, but typically suitable cultivars are propagated asexually by budding, grafting, layering, or even more nursery techniques.