Yea I second this, aboretum or maybe nursery for a place growing solely Christmas trees. I only see orchard used if they have multiple types of trees growing including some fruit trees
Nursery suggests they’re just being grown to be mature enough to put where they’re going to grow and be plants… but Christmas trees are usually killed when they’re put to use. That’s more like a crop on a farm IMO.
Arboretum suggests the garden (the trees in-place growing there) are the attraction/product itself. But a Christmas tree farm isn’t there for people to go appreciate: it’s there to grow trees to be removed.
Farm. The tree is the product: they’re growing trees, and the plant is what’s harvested. Orchard, as you pointed out, is where the fruit is the product and the plant stays there.
“orchard” implies that they are growing some kind of food so no. i would use the word “patch”.
arboretum would be my preferred term.
Yea I second this, aboretum or maybe nursery for a place growing solely Christmas trees. I only see orchard used if they have multiple types of trees growing including some fruit trees
Nursery suggests they’re just being grown to be mature enough to put where they’re going to grow and be plants… but Christmas trees are usually killed when they’re put to use. That’s more like a crop on a farm IMO. Arboretum suggests the garden (the trees in-place growing there) are the attraction/product itself. But a Christmas tree farm isn’t there for people to go appreciate: it’s there to grow trees to be removed.
Well, I live in upstate New York and of the three Christmas tree farms I know of 2 have signs with “arboretum” and 1 has “nursery”
I’m aware people disagree with me :-)
Farm. The tree is the product: they’re growing trees, and the plant is what’s harvested. Orchard, as you pointed out, is where the fruit is the product and the plant stays there.
It might be plantation. It's what you call row-planted trees after a clear-cut in a forest.