Smart Garden Pooch Heart Planter - Weatherproof Indoor/Outdoor Dog-Shaped Decorative Plant Pot

Smart Garden Pooch Heart Planter

The Pooch Heart is a standing dog with a heart held against its chest, the planting cavity set into the back behind the shoulders. It is the most upright of Smart Garden's animal planters, so it reads well on a step or at the end of a bench where a low, sprawling pot would disappear.

Smart Garden publish no dimensions or material declaration for it, and the figures that appear on retail listings vary widely, so nothing is claimed here beyond what can be seen. Treat it as a decorative container for one small plant rather than as a pot with useful capacity.

Performance & Benefits

• Upright standing dog form with a heart motif to the chest.
• Planting cavity set into the back, keeping the silhouette intact when planted.
• Single moulding with a painted finish, intended for indoor or outdoor display.
• Stands square without a stake or a support.
• A memorial or keepsake piece as much as a planter, which is how most people use it.

Suitable For

• Small succulents, sedums, low herbs and single trailing plants.
• Steps, benches, porch corners and sheltered patio positions.
• Dog owners, and as a quiet memorial planting for a dog that has gone.
• Indoor display on a hall table or a deep windowsill.
• Not suitable as a feeding or drinking bowl for a dog — Animall stock proper stainless steel and ceramic bowls for that.

How to Use

• Check the base for a drainage hole before planting; if there is none, use a plastic liner pot you can lift out to water.
• Half-fill with a free-draining compost, set the plant in, and top up to just below the rim of the cavity.
• Water carefully into the cavity — the narrow opening makes it easy to overfill.
• Move it under cover in hard frost if you want the painted detail to stay crisp.
• Dust and wipe with a damp cloth only.

Specification

• Standing dog planter with heart detail, supplied unplanted.
• Barcode 5050642088312.
• Smart Garden publish no height, width, capacity or material specification for this planter, so none is stated here.
• Retail listings quote dimensions of roughly 22 x 42.5 x 15cm and an MGO body; neither figure comes from Smart Garden and the dimensions look large for a planter of this type.