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Picked up this huge lovely pot last weekend, any suggestions for what to put in it :P

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what do use the giant battery for :?: :shock: :lol:

maybe a very small accent plant :?: something hardy
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Certainly not the battery!
Perhaps your navel lint?
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Navel lint hey? I have heard that doesn't bonsai very well :P

Accent plant is not a bad idea. I'll post some picture should I ever decide to plant something in it.
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Accent plant? Pffff. That would be the accent to the accent plant.

Perhaps a blade of grass? Or a covering of moss. Good luck keeping that watered in summer
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Plant a seed.... And watch it grow... Will probably be root bound in a couple of weeks...Ha Ha Ha...!!!
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I have seen tiny figs grown in pots this small. It is not easy to keep something that small alive but if anything will grow in it a fig would do it.
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could chuck something like a small agave into it.
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Bonsai Smurf looking for his pot! Haha

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Juniper or small leaved aussie native ( Kunzea, Melaleauca)

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