You raise a good point about drainage. My thought was that the pellets or
whatever act as drainage, keeping the roots from becoming water logged. The
water would collect at the bottom, I guess but I have heard that such
drainage systems are possible for smaller pots without holes. The planting
around the base also serves the opposite function as the decorative moss
that someone suggested, by also drawing off water, rather than keeping it
around the plant.

The urn I have in mind is heavy as hell, I don't think it would topple over
from weight of a ficus and its roots.

I am still not sure what to use for the drainage material.

mm


"Iris Cohen" wrote in message
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I have a lovely ficus and I would like to plant it in one of those
giant
chinese urns, about 3 feet high,

don't plant it in anything that doesn't have a drain hole.

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)