Smart Garden Piggy Planter - Weatherproof Indoor/Outdoor Pig-Shaped Plant Pot

Smart Garden Piggy Planter

The Piggy is a moulded pig sitting up with a hollowed back, so the plant goes in where a saddle would sit. Unlike most of Smart Garden's ornamental animals this one has a drainage hole in the base, which makes it a usable pot rather than purely a shelf ornament — it will sit outside all summer without drowning whatever is in it.

It suits a compact plant that will not swamp the shape: a succulent, a small trailing sedum, a cluster of thyme. Smart Garden do not publish dimensions or a material specification for it on their trade catalogue, so none is claimed here.

Performance & Benefits

• Drainage hole moulded into the base — the one thing most novelty planters lack.
• Seated pig form with a hollowed back that holds the plant low and central.
• One-piece moulding, painted for outdoor display.
• Small footprint, so it fits a shelf, a sill or the corner of a table.
• Reads as an ornament in its own right when nothing is planted in it.

Suitable For

• Succulents, cacti, alpines and small herbs.
• Patio tables, garden shelving and sheltered windowsills.
• Smallholders and anyone who keeps pigs and will see the joke.
• Planting up as a gift, since it stands on its own without a saucer.
• Not a pot for a shrub or a standard — a 26cm Woodlodge glazed pot gives the root run those need.

How to Use

• Cover the drainage hole with a crock or a little grit before adding compost.
• Fill with a free-draining mix and firm the plant in level with the rim of the hollow.
• Water into the compost rather than over the moulding, and let it drain fully.
• Stand it on a saucer or a pot foot indoors so the drainage hole does not mark furniture.
• Clean with a damp cloth; leave abrasives and pressure washers well away from the paint.

Specification

• Seated pig novelty planter with a drainage hole in the base, supplied unplanted.
• Barcode 5050642088305.
• Smart Garden publish no dimensions, capacity or material specification for this planter, so none is stated here.
• Descriptions of it as weatherproof polyresin come from retail listings rather than from Smart Garden.