what is the function of a nursery?

Question

can i have a long chunky paragraph about what the function of a nursery is?

i am talking about a care centre nursery for chilren run during the day.

Answer 1

Ok. There are two different forms of a nursery - there is one for kids:

A nursery, also called day nursery, is a care facility for children below school age, usually infants and toddlers (ages 0-4). It generally precedes nursery school (preschool). Depending on the approach of a particular nursery, there may be an emphasis on structured play, listening to stories, recognising images, and other developmental skills.

and one for plants:

A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. There are retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to other nurseries and to commercial landscape gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of institutions or private estates. Some retail and wholesale nurseries sell by mail.

Nurseries grow annuals, perennials, and woody plants (trees and shrubs). These have a variety of uses: decorative plants for flower gardening and landscaping, garden vegetable plants, and agricultural plants.

Nurseries often grow plants in a greenhouse, a building of glass or in plastic tunnels, designed to protect young plants from harsh weather (especially frost), while allowing access to light and ventilation. Modern greenhouses allow automated control of temperature, ventilation and light and semi-automated watering and feeding. Some also have fold-back roofs to allow "hardening-off" of plants without the need for manual transfer to outdoor beds.

Some nurseries specialize in one phase of the process: propagation, growing out, or retail sale; or in one type of plant: groundcovers, shade plants, fruit trees, or rock garden plants.

Nurseries remain highly labour-intensive. Although some processes have been mechanised and automated, others have not. It remains highly unlikely that all plants treated in the same way at the same time will arrive at the same condition together, so plant care requires observation, judgement and manual dexterity; selection for sale requires comparison and judgement. A UK nurseryman has estimated that manpower accounts for 70% of his production costs.

Business is highly seasonal, concentrated in spring and autumn. There is no guarantee that there will be demand for the product - this will be affected by temperature, drought, cheaper foreign competition, fashion, etc. A nursery carries these risks and fluctuations.

Annuals are sold in trays (undivided containers with multiple plants), flats (trays with built-in cells), peat pots, or plastic pots. Perennials and woody plants are sold either in pots, bare-root or balled and burlaped and in a variety of sizes, from liners to mature trees.

Plants may be propagated by seeds, but often desirable cultivars are propagated asexually by budding, grafting, layering, or other nursery techniques.

So it really depends on which one you are talking about. I hope I have been helpful.

Answer 2

It is a facility for looking after children when they reach 3 years and 4 months. this is a State nursery, a day nursery will take children from 6 weeks to school age. These are privately run but have to be OFSTED registered.
Nursery education must follow a curriculum set down by Ofsted this includes private day care. This ensures the needs of the children are covered, social, education, moral.
The rest is up to you to find out.

Answer 3

A nursery is a place to attend to young people and a place for plant-life that needs more personal care and attention than if it were forced to thrive in the more impersonal environment of an open, usually much larger area called a 'field'.

Answer 4

Hi!

You need to tell us it is a children's day care nursery, a nursery room or a garden nursery!

Answer 5

Depends on which one you want...there's one with planets and one for kids but they're both to raise and help along young.

A place where you give special care to young things I guess would be it's function. You have everything you need at your finger tips to assist them.

Answer 6

Nursery for flowers or for babies? Either way, for nurturing. Feeding, comforting, growing, resting.

Answer 7

as in childrens nursery or plant nursery???

Answer 8

It grows precious plants

Answer 9

To take care of little kids.

Answer 10

for dumping kids in when you don't want to look after them.....or when you have to work and be a parent at the same time.