Planter or Planters may refer to:

Common meanings

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flowerpot 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, wit ...

or box for plants ** ''

Jardiniere ''Jardinière'' is a French language, French word, from the Grammatical gender, feminine form of "gardener". In English it means a decorative flower box or "planter", a receptacle (usually a ceramic pot or urn) or a stand upon which, or into whic ...

'', one such type of pot, mostly indoor types **

Cachepot A cachepot (, ) is a French term for what is usually called in modern English a "planter" or for older examples a jardiniere, namely a decorative container or "overpot" for a plant and its flowerpot, for indoors use, usually with no drainage h ...

, another term for the same **

Flower box A flower box is a type of container (flowers), container in the form of a planter or box that is usually placed outdoors and used for displaying live plants and flowers, but it may also be used for growing herbs or other edible plants. It is usu ...

, another type of planter, mostly for outdoors **

Window box A window box (sometimes called a window flower box or window box planter) is a type of flower container for live flowers or plants in the form of a box attached on or just below the sill of a window. It may also be used for growing herbs or ot ...

, a planter attached to a windowsill, on the outside **

Sub-irrigated planter Sub-irrigated planter (SIP) is a generic name for a special type of planting box used in container gardening and commercial landscaping. A SIP is any method of watering plants where the water is introduced from the bottom, allowing the water to so ...

, a planting box where the water is introduced from the bottom * A person or object engaged in

sowing Sowing is the process of planting seeds. An area that has had seeds planted in it will be described as a sowed or sown area. Plants which are usually sown Among the major field crops, oats, wheat, and rye are sown, grasses and legumes are ...

seeds **

Planter (farm implement) A two row planter featuring John Deere "71 Flexi" row units John Deere MaxEmerge XP Planter with Case IH AFS precision farming system which auto-steers using GPS A Kinze 2200 planter A planter is a farm implement, usually towed behind a trac ...

, implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field **

Potato planter A potato planter is a farm implement for sowing seed potatoes. Hand potato planters, often referred to as foot-operated planters, are long-handled tools attached to a hinged "beak". The tuber is placed into the planter-beak and penetrated into ...

, a machine for planting potato tubers and simultaneously applying mineral fertilizers to the soil

History

* A coloniser **

Plantations of Ireland Plantation (settlement or colony), Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland () involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the Kingdom of England, English The Crown, Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Br ...

, 16th and 17th centuries **

Ancient planter "Ancient planter" (sometimes called ancient colony men) was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement was managed privately by the Virginia Company of London. A colonist received a land grant ...

, a colonist receiving one of the first land grants in Virginia **

New England Planters The New England Planters were settlers from the New England colonies who responded to invitations by the lieutenant governor (and subsequently governor) of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, to settle lands left vacant by the Bay of Fundy Campaign ...

, settlers who moved to the Canadian maritime provinces which had been left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion **

Old Planters (Massachusetts) The Old Planters of Massachusetts were settlers of lands on Massachusetts Bay that were not part of the two major settlements in the area, the Plymouth Colony (1620), and the Massachusetts Bay Colony (begun 1628, expanded significantly starting in 1 ...

, early settlers of Massachusetts * A

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

Planter class The planter class was a Racial hierarchy, racial and socioeconomic class which emerged in the Americas during European colonization of the Americas, European colonization in the early modern period. Members of the class, most of whom were settle ...

, the collective class of plantation owners in the American antebellum South * A supervisor of a

plantation Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tob ...

, particularly in the Far East under the British Empire * Church planter, a person engaged in creating a new Christian church

Companies

Planters Planters Nut & Chocolate Company is an American snack food company now owned by Hormel Foods. Planters is best known for its processed nuts and for the Mr. Peanut icon that symbolizes them. Mr. Peanut was created by grade schooler Antonio Gent ...

, the American snack food company best known for its processed nuts and the "Mr. Peanut" mascot * Planters Bank, which merged with Peoples Bank of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States in 1990 to form

Centura Bank Centura Bank was an American bank headquartered in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It existed from 1990, when Peoples Bancorp and Planters Bank merged, to 2001, when the Royal Bank of Canada acquired the company and changed its name to RBC Centura. ...

Planters Inn Planters Inn is a hotel in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It occupies the building at 29 Abercorn Street which was constructed in 1913.

, hotel in Savannah, Georgia * Union Planters, a former bank in the United States * Planters Development Bank or Plantersbank, a former bank in the Philippines

Military

* , a number of ships of the U.S. Navy * , a number of commercial steam ships *

Mine planter Mine planter and the earlier "torpedo planter" was a term used for mine warfare ships into the early days of World War I. In later terminology, particularly in the United States, a mine planter was a ship specifically designed to install controlle ...

, a mine warfare ship of the early days of World War I

Sports

* Planters Pat Bradley International, a former golf tournament

Baseball

Clarksdale Planters The Clarksdale Planters are a defunct minor league baseball team that was based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. They played under different names over their 13 nonconsecutive seasons, including the Ginners (1934–1936, 1941), the Red Sox (1937–1940 ...

, a minor league baseball team in Mississippi, United States *

New London Planters The New London Planters were a minor league baseball team based in New London, Connecticut, that entered the now defunct Connecticut League in 1913, which had recently renamed itself the Eastern Association (baseball), Eastern Association with the ...

, a minor league baseball team in Connecticut, United States

Culture

* Igor Planter, a fictional eco-terrorist in the 2000-2004 manga ''

Black Cat A black cat is a Cat, domestic cat with black fur. They may be a specific Purebred, breed, or a common domestic cat of no particular or mixed breed. Most black cats have golden iris (anatomy), irises due to their high melanin pigment content. Bl ...

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The Planter ''The Planter'' is a lost film, lost 1917 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and John Ince (actor), John Ince. It was produced by F. N. Manson and Harry Drum and distributed through Mutual. Cast *Tyrone Power, ...

'', a 1917 American drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and John Ince

Other uses

* Planter, Georgia, a community in the United States * Planters Hall, a historic place in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States *

Planter's Punch Planter's punch is an IBA Official Cocktail made of Jamaican rum, fresh lime juice, and sugar cane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used ...

, a cocktail