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An ornamental planter at Regent's Park, Inner London, England. Containers range from simple plastic pots, to teacups, to complex automatically watered irrigation systems. This flexibility in design is another reason container gardening is popular with growers. They can be found on porches, front steps, and—in urban locations—on rooftops.
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Three planters, after 1845, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin before the War, 1901, by Confederate chaplain and planter James Battle Avirett. An individual who owned a plantation was known as a planter.
A flowerpot, planter, planterette or plant pot, is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed. Historically, and still to a significant extent today, they are made from plain terracotta with no ceramic glaze , with a round shape, tapering inwards.
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
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During World War II, houseplants became more common in offices, which began to more closely resemble the domestic environment as more women entered the workforce. [ 25 ] By 1960, Florida produced more than 55% of American houseplants, and has since remained the main producer of houseplants for the American market. [ 17 ]