bare root
Naked plant base
Bare root describes plants sold without soil around their roots, typically dormant and wrapped in moisture-retaining material.
Nurseries ship roses, fruit trees, and perennials this way because they're lighter and cheaper than potted plants: Plant bare root trees in early spring before they leaf out.
The roots are literally bare—exposed rather than contained in a ball of earth.
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
- dormantInactive but capable
- dormant seasonTime of suspended growth
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- nurseryRoom for infants
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- Tree Plantingsapling, seedling, planting, transplanting, hole digging
- Rose Gardensrose garden, rose beds, rose bushes, rose bush, rosebush
- Stone Fruit Orchardsorchard, cherry trees, apricot tree, peach trees, stone fruit
- plant shippingshipping box, overnight shipping, cold damage, growing season
- saplingssapling, oak sapling
- peach growingpeach tree, peach blossom, freestone, clingstone, white peach