Smart Garden Doormouse Planter - Weatherproof Fairy Garden Pot for Succulents & Small Plants

Smart Garden Doormouse Planter

The Doormouse is a small novelty planter cast as a mouse peeping out of a little arched door, the sort of thing that goes on a windowsill or a shelf by the back door rather than into a border. It takes one modest plant — a succulent, a small fern, a clump of thyme — and the ornament does the rest of the work.

Smart Garden sell it as an ornamental piece rather than a horticultural one, and they publish no dimensions or material breakdown for it on their trade catalogue, so we do not state any here. Retail listings describe a polyresin casting roughly 21cm across and 18cm high; that figure is not confirmed by Smart Garden and should be treated as approximate.

Performance & Benefits

• Cast as a mouse in a doorway — a woodland ornament that happens to hold a plant.
• Small enough for a windowsill, a shelf or the corner of a garden table.
• Moulded in one piece, so there is nothing to assemble or fix together.
• Painted finish intended for outdoor as well as indoor display.
• Works as a standing ornament out of season when nothing is planted in it.

Suitable For

• Succulents, small ferns, herbs and single small bedding plants.
• Fairy gardens, miniature scenes and children's planting projects.
• Windowsills, porch shelves and sheltered patio tables.
• A small gift for a gardener who already has every practical pot they need.
• Too small for anything with real root run — a Woodlodge glazed pot suits shrubs and standards.

How to Use

• Add a shallow layer of grit or broken crock before the compost if the base has no drainage hole.
• Plant with a free-draining mix; Westland Seed & Cutting Compost suits small succulent plantings.
• Water sparingly — a container this size dries and waterlogs quickly in equal measure.
• Bring it under cover over winter if you want the painted detail to keep its colour.
• Wipe the moulding with a damp cloth rather than scrubbing it.

Specification

• Novelty mouse-and-door planter, supplied unplanted.
• Barcode 5050642112741.
• Smart Garden publish no dimensions, weight or material specification for this planter, so none is stated here.
• Listings quoting approximately 21cm diameter by 18cm height, and a polyresin body, are retailer figures rather than Smart Garden's own.