It is where my children are growing up and putting down roots.
You have to be born in a place to put down roots.
But while you were away, we've put down deep roots here.
Others will want to put down roots and take care of family members who helped them along the way.
One more small effort, then he would put down roots.
Never long enough to put down roots, make it any kind of home.
He certainly could identify with the need to put down roots.
That he was a man who hadn't put down roots?
Plants, obviously, cannot move after they have put down roots.
Except he wasn't the kind of man who put down roots.
Idiome