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a coffin for soil where dirt gets a second chance at glory
means A container or pot in which plants are grown, especially decoratively; also a person or machine that plants seeds.
from From the verb 'plant,' which comes through Old English 'plantian' and Latin 'plantare,' meaning to drive into the ground with the sole of the foot — yes, 'planta' was the flat of the foot, the same root that gives us 'plantar' as in plantar fasciitis. The '-er' suffix simply marks the doer or the thing that does, so a planter is literally 'that which plants,' a sense later stretched from people pressing seeds into earth to the pots holding the earth itself.
- drainage law
- no holes means root rot, every time
- colonial weight
- once meant plantation owners, not pots
- self-watering
- reservoir wicks moisture up for lazy gardeners
- material matters
- terracotta breathes, plastic suffocates roots faster
- thriller spiller
- design rule stacks tall, full, and trailing plants
versailles palace gardens — 17th century french royal estate with 2,143 acres of ornamental planters and formal gardens
self-watering olla pots — ancient clay irrigation vessels still used in southwestern us and mexico for desert gardening
hanging gardens of babylon — legendary stepped garden planters in ancient iraq, one of the seven wonders