Editing Plant nursery (section)

==Methods==
[[File:Orchid plants.jpg|thumb|left|A small nursery filled with orchid plants in bloom.]]
[[File:Treenursery using gutters.jpg|thumb|left|A tree nursery using gutters to decrease growing costs]]
Propagation nurseries produce new plants from seeds, cuttings, tissue culture, grafting, or division. The plants are then grown out to a salable size and either sold to other nurseries that may continue to grow the plants out in larger containers or field grow them to desired size. Propagation nurseries may also sell plant material large enough for retail sales and thus sale directly to retail nurseries or garden centers (which rarely propagated their own plants).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reid |first=Robert L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgPLBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA206 |title=The Manual of Australian Agriculture |date=2013-10-22 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-1-4831-0034-0 }}</ref>

Nurseries may produce plants for [[reforestation]], zoos, parks, and cities. Tree nurseries in the U.S. produce around 1.3 billion seedlings per year for reforestation projects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Reforestation Pipeline |url=https://www.americanforests.org/project/the-reforestation-pipeline/ |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=American Forests |language=en-US}}</ref>
   
Nurseries grow plants in open fields, on container fields, in tunnels or greenhouses.  In open fields, nurseries grow decorative trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials. On a containerfield nurseries grow small trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, usually destined for sales in garden centers. These have proper ventilation, sunlight etc. Plants may be grown by seeds, but the most common method is by planting cuttings, which can be taken from shoot tips or roots.