garden center

noun

variants US garden center or British garden centre

plural garden centers

: a store that sells plants, gardening supplies, and other items for outdoor use (such as lawn statues, bird seed, furniture, or fountains)

I used to go to the local garden center every fall and purchase fifty-two daffodil bulbs.

—Douglas Coupland

Any of the standard fungicides will do. … Usually the premixed rose sprays sold at garden centers contain one of these.

—Joan Lee Faust

Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above