North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2017 Version 3.0

11142 - Nursery and floriculture production

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing, under cover or in open fields, nursery and floriculture products, such as nursery stock, shrubbery, cut flowers, flower seeds, potted flowering and foliage plants, flower bedding plants, ornamental plants, or some combination of these, and propagating materials, for example, plugs, cuttings, and tissue cultures. The growing of short rotation woody crops, such as cut Christmas trees and cottonwoods for pulpwood, that have a typical growth cycle of less than ten years or less, is also included in this industry.

• Exclusion(s)

  • growing seedling trees for reforestation (See 113210 Forest nurseries and gathering of forest products)
  • growing vegetable and melon bedding plants (See 111219 Other vegetable (except potato) and melon farming)
  • operating timber tracts that have a growth cycle of ten years or more (See 113110 Timber tract operations)
  • retailing nursery, tree stock and floriculture products primarily purchased from others (See 444220 Nursery stores and garden centres)

111421 - Nursery and tree production^US

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing, under cover or in open fields, nursery products and trees, and short rotation woody crops, for pulp and tree stock, that have a typical growth cycle of less than ten years.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • Christmas tree growing
  • field nurseries (e.g., growing ornamental plants, shrubs and trees)
  • nursery stock growing
  • ornamental plants, shrubs and trees, nursery grown
  • tree nursery
  • turf (sod) farming

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • forestry for nursery and tree production (See 113110 Timber tract operations)
  • operation of timber tracts that have a growth cycle of ten years or more (See 113110 Timber tract operations)
  • retailing nursery, tree stock and floriculture products primarily purchased from others (See 444220 Nursery stores and garden centres)

111422 - Floriculture production^US

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in growing, under cover or in open fields, floriculture products and propagating materials.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • flower nursery
  • flower seed production
  • flower, plant and bulb growing, greenhouse

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • retailing floriculture products primarily purchased from others (See 444220 Nursery stores and garden centres)