Garden vs. Nursery — What's the Difference?

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature, as an ideal setting for social or solitary human life. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control.

A room or area in a household set apart for the use of children.

A plot of land used for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, or fruit.

A place for the temporary care of children in the absence of their parents.

A piece of ground adjoining a house, in which grass, flowers, and shrubs may be grown

A nursery school.

A large public hall

A place where plants are grown for sale, transplanting, or experimentation.

Cultivate or work in a garden

A place in which something is produced, fostered, or developed.

An arrangement of living material that is cultivated for food, as a fungus garden maintained by ants.

(countable) A place where breastfeeding]] or the raising of children is carried on.

Often gardens Grounds laid out with flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs and used for recreation or display

(by extension) Especially in European countries: a room or area in a household set apart for the care of children.

A yard or lawn.

A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.

A fertile, well-cultivated region.

A play]] at the same time.

An open-air establishment where refreshments are served.

(Philippines) The first year of pre-school.

A large public auditorium or arena.

A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

To cultivate (a plot of ground) as a garden.

A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).

To furnish with a garden.

(horticulture) A place where young shrubs, trees, vines, etc., are cultivated for transplanting, or (more generally) made available for public sale, a garden centre; also (obsolete) a plantation of young trees.

To plant or tend a garden.

(sports) A club or team for developing the skills of young players.

To work as a gardener.

(countable) Something which educates and nurtures.

Of, suitable to, or used in a garden

Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.

Provided with open areas and greenery

The act of nursing or rearing.

Garden-variety.

The act of nursing.

An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.

The place where nursing is carried on

(in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

(attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.

That which is nursed.

The grounds at the front or back of a house.

A child's room for a baby

(cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.

A building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

(figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.

(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.

Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

Common, ordinary, domesticated.

A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.

To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

To cultivate as a garden.

A plot of ground where plants are cultivated

The flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

A yard or lawn adjoining a house

Work in the garden;