Nurseries-Retail

Retail nurseries house a wide variety of plants, flowers and trees that are sold to garden owners, land developers, landscape designers and architects, and park management. Retail nurseries may not plant and propagate flowers and trees themselves, but may purchase them from a nursery wholesaler or plant farm.

Nurseries and garden centres can offer very wide or quite specialised arrays of plants and garden supplies. Nurseries can sell indoor and outdoor plants, annual and perennial flowers and flowering plants, herbs, specialised local and Australian native plants, seedlings and propagated plants, vegetable and fruit seeds, seedlings and more mature plants, as well as trees of all types and ages – from seedlings through to fully matured trees.

Garden centres, which are often attached to hardware and home-ware retail stores, will also stock garden supplies and various types of garden equipment. Some garden centres will also stock barbecues and garden furniture and accessories, including chairs, tables, umbrellas, plant pots, ceramic pots and planters. Water features and equipment are another specialty item offered by some garden centres and nurseries. Nurseries which offer semi-mature and mature trees will also perform tree planting services to ensure the tree is properly transported and positioned. Nurseries will also work in conjunction with landscape architects on residential, commercial and civic projects.