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A clay promise that something inside will eventually try harder than you did.
means A container, usually tapered and drained at the bottom, made for growing a plant in soil.
from A plain compound of 'flower' and 'pot' — English just stuck the two nouns together once gardeners needed a word for 'the pot you grow a flower in.' 'Pot' itself goes back through Old English and French to a vague old Germanic/Latin root for a rounded vessel, used for everything from cooking to chamber pots long before it specialized here. No hidden story — the word is exactly as literal as it looks, first showing up in English once potted houseplants and window gardening became common enough to need naming.
- drainage hole
- exists so roots do not drown in optimism
- terracotta origin
- literally means baked earth in Italian
- root bound
- plants circle the walls like tiny prisoners
- ancient use
- Egyptians buried pots to transport trees