Others nurture smaller plants that require shade.

If fertilizer is applied now, the nutrients will have worked down into the root-zone level by the time spring rolls around, and they will be doing their job to nurture plants when they need it most.

The environment can actually nurture semi-tropical and tropical indoor plants.

The peaceful atrium nurtures primitive plants, several of which have evolved over a period of 100 million years.

The Arboretum of Los Angeles County (301 North Baldwin Ave. ) is here, nurturing plants from every part of the world.

Many vegetable gardeners forget about the need to nurture young plants during the hot days of August.

And there, in the rocky soil, they had nurtured plants.

The greenhouse, run by an artist-designed solar energy system, nurtures endangered native plants collected by Ms. Schmidt from land scheduled for development.

Dirty dishwater nurtures plants.

Only in the past year has the Forest Service acknowledged that the old-growth forests are unique, nurturing plants and animals that can live only under its thick canopy and in its dense underbrush.