Chive Turtle Green color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle Green color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Back view of Chive Turtle Green color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle Green color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a small plant.
Two Chive Turtle Green color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a plant.
Side view of a Chive Turtle Green color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a small plant.
Chive Turtle Orange color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Side view of a Chive Turtle Orange color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a plant.
Back view of a Chive Turtle Orange color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Two Chive Turtle Orange color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a plant.
Top view of a Chive Turtle Orange color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a plant.
Chive Turtle Yellow color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Back view of a Chive Turtle Yellow color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle Yellow color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a cactus plant.
Two Chive Turtle Yellow color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a cactus.
Chive Turtle White color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Back view of a Chive Turtle White color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle White color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a cactus plant.
Two Chive Turtle White color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a cactus.
Chive Turtle Green color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle Green color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Back view of Chive Turtle Green color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle Green color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a small plant.
Two Chive Turtle Green color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a plant.
Side view of a Chive Turtle Green color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a small plant.
Chive Turtle Orange color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Side view of a Chive Turtle Orange color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a plant.
Back view of a Chive Turtle Orange color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Two Chive Turtle Orange color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a plant.
Top view of a Chive Turtle Orange color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a plant.
Chive Turtle Yellow color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Back view of a Chive Turtle Yellow color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle Yellow color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a cactus plant.
Two Chive Turtle Yellow color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a cactus.
Chive Turtle White color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Back view of a Chive Turtle White color ceramic turtle shaped succulent planter with no drainage.
Chive Turtle White color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planter styled with a cactus plant.
Two Chive Turtle White color glazed ceramic turtle shaped planters styled with a cactus.

Animal Pots

Turtle Ceramic Indoor Plant Pot For Succulents

animal shaped planters

$9.38
Colors: Green
Animal Shaped Pot
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Designed to layer beautifully in any room. Choose a piece as your design anchor, hen build your custom pottery collection with these complementary companions:

The Turtle is a glazed ceramic succulent planter shaped like a turtle, in a high-gloss finish that follows its rounded contours. The silhouette is clean, the shell details are simple, and the glassy surface wipes clean.

There is no drainage hole, so it works best as a cover pot for a standard plastic nursery liner, which keeps the desk dry. It holds a plant on its back and asks nothing further. You didn't come here for a nature documentary or a lecture on Darwin. You came for a turtle with a plant on its back, and it's unbothered by whatever you put there.

Product detail
  • Color: Green, Orange, White, Yellow
  • Material: Ceramic
  • Glaze finish: Glazed
  • Finish variation: Natural variation between pieces
  • Drainage: No
  • Saucer: No
  • Dishwasher safe: Yes
  • Indoor / Outdoor: For indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use
  • Designed by: Chive Studio
  • Year Designed: 2016
Dimension
  • 4 inches in diameter, 5.5 inches tall
Plants that love this pot
  • Succulents
  • Cacti
  • Haworthia
  • Echeveria
  • Jade plant
  • Aloe
  • Air plants (Tillandsia)
  • Snake plant

Potting in a Pot Without Drainage

  1. Add a 1-inch layer of small stones or LECA pebbles at the bottom to create a small reservoir, since there is no drainage hole.
  2. Use a well-draining cactus or succulent mix. Not garden soil. We know your grandmother used garden soil. She was wrong about this one thing.
  3. Transplant from the nursery pot, or simply set the nursery pot inside and lift it out to water.
  4. Water sparingly. Without a drainage hole, less is always safer than more, so let the soil dry out between waterings.
  5. Keep it in bright, indirect light, and pour off any standing water you can see pooling at the bottom.

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Pot Care instructions
  1. Dishwasher-safe. Can also be hand-washed with warm soapy water and a soft cloth.
  2. The glaze is dipped and kiln-fired — it is sealed, durable, and not looking for trouble. No special cleaning products required.
  3. For pots with saucers empty the saucer periodically. Standing water in the saucer defeats the purpose of having a drainage hole, which is a thing we feel strongly about.
  4. Not frost-safe. Designed for indoor use and covered outdoor temperate weather use. Freezing temperatures are not recommended.
Shipping & returns

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  • International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 14 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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We Scrapped the Darwin Angle

We had a whole plan for the turtle. There was going to be a Galapagos angle, a Darwin reference, a thoughtful paragraph about the slow patient wisdom of a creature that has been doing essentially nothing, beautifully, for two hundred years. We were going to make it educational. We were going to make you feel something about evolution while you shopped for a plant pot.

Then we looked at the turtle again and remembered that it is a turtle. It is shaped like a turtle. It holds a plant on its back the way a turtle would hold absolutely nothing, because turtles do not hold things, having neither the inclination nor the hands, but ours does, and that turns out to be the entire appeal. The plan was overthinking it. The turtle was right.

So here is the turtle, without the lecture. It is glazed ceramic, it wipes clean, and it keeps its shell indefinitely, which is more than most of us can say. There is no drainage hole, so it does best with a succulent or a small cactus, or as a cover pot for a nursery container you can lift out to water. It will sit on a windowsill and carry a plant with the unbothered patience that turtles have always had and we have always envied. You did not come here for a nature documentary. You came here for a turtle with a plant on its back, and that is exactly what this is.

Potting a plant with Chive

  1. Place a 1-inch layer of small stones or LECA pebbles at the bottom of the pot. Optional, but it helps with airflow.
  2. Add well-draining potting mix appropriate to your plant. Not garden soil. We know your grandmother used garden soil. She was wrong about this one thing.
  3. Transplant from the nursery pot, leaving about 1 inch at the top for watering.
  4. Set the pot on the matching saucer.
  5. Water thoroughly until water runs out the drainage hole into the saucer. Empty the saucer once the plant has absorbed what it needs.
Repotting plants with Chive | Chive Studio

The Ultimate Repotting Guide

For those who have killed a plant. Or several. Or, frankly, many.

Before you put a plant into your new pot, you have to get it out of the nursery pot — a process that ends badly more often than any gardening influencer will admit. We wrote a full guide: when to repot (early spring, and not when you're feeling impulsive in October), which soil to use, how to tell your plant is root-bound, and how to avoid the three mistakes that kill perfectly healthy plants within a week of a well-intentioned repotting.

It is the guide we wish someone had handed us twenty-five years ago. It is written by people who have personally committed most of the errors in it.

Read the guide we wish we had
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Meet the Whole Menagerie

The Turtle has company. The full Animal Pots collection runs the same idea across ducks, dinosaurs, and the occasional pig.

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No Drainage, No Problem

The Turtle has no drainage hole, so plant a succulent, add a layer of pebbles, or set a nursery pot inside and lift it out to water. If you would rather have a drainage hole, the full pot range has one in every size.

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Start Something From Seed

Before the Turtle has anything to carry, there are Shido Seeds, vacuum-sealed and built to keep for years. Start the plant first, then hand it to the turtle.

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Longwood Gardens Did Not Ask About the Turtle

The Turtle is designed by Chive Studio, part of an animal pot line we drew ourselves and have never handed off to anyone to copy. Over the years our ceramics have found their way into botanical garden shops and museum stores across the continent, including Longwood Gardens and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which is a strange and gratifying sentence to be able to write about a company that also makes a turtle holding a plant. We do not separate the two. The turtle is built to the same standard as anything we send to a botanical garden, because we do not keep a second, lazier standard for the playful things.

Everything in our catalog is designed in-house, sold through independent retailers and our own shops, and shipped to more than forty countries. We have been doing this long enough to know what we are good at, and what we are good at is making the serious things and the silly things to exactly the same level of care.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Turtle ceramic planter good for?

The Turtle is a ceramic planter for indoor plants. It works well for succulents, cacti, and other plants that like to dry out and suits modern, boho, and minimalist rooms. As a ceramic planter, the Turtle fits a shelf, sill, or desk and pairs cleanly with the rest of the Chive pot range. It comes in several colorways to match different rooms.

Does the Turtle planter have a drainage hole?

No, the Turtle is an indoor planter without a drainage hole, so it is best used with plants that tolerate less frequent watering or as a cachepot. Either plant succulents directly and water lightly, or drop a nursery pot inside and lift it out to water. Without a drainage hole, the trick is to add water slowly and avoid leaving any pooled at the bottom.

What plants grow well in the Turtle?

The Turtle is a ceramic planter that holds a nursery plant of a similar width, so match the grower pot to the opening rather than the mature size of the plant. Good choices include succulents, cacti, and other plants that like to dry out. For an indoor plant pot, size up by about an inch when you repot so roots have room without swimming in soil.

Does the Turtle come with a saucer?

The Turtle does not include a saucer, which suits its use as a decorative planter. If you plant directly in it, water lightly so nothing collects at the base, or set a nursery pot inside and lift it out to water over a sink. A small cork pad underneath protects furniture if you keep the Turtle on a shelf. As an indoor planter without a tray, it is forgiving as long as you water with a light hand.

Is the Turtle pot ceramic?

Yes, the Turtle is a ceramic plant pot. Ceramic is fired hard, holds glaze color well, and does not break down with watering the way untreated materials can, which makes ceramic plant pots a reliable choice for indoor plants. The Turtle is glazed to seal the surface, so it wipes clean and keeps its finish on a sill, shelf, or table.

How do I water a plant in the Turtle?

To water the Turtle, add small amounts and stop before anything pools at the bottom, since this planter has no drainage hole. The easiest method is to keep the plant in its nursery pot, lift it out to water over a sink, let it drain, and set it back. Watering a pot without drainage is mostly about restraint, less water, less often.

Is the Turtle good for succulents?

The Turtle is a good ceramic planter for succulents. Succulents like the tighter, fast-drying conditions of a pot without a drainage hole, as long as you water lightly. For anyone searching for a ceramic pot for succulents, the Turtle covers both looks and function. Match the nursery pot to the opening and the plant settles in without fuss.

Is the Turtle planter a good gift?

The Turtle is a small animal planter that works as a desk pot, a windowsill succulent home, or a gift for a plant lover or a kid's room. It has no drainage hole, so it suits a small succulent or a nursery pot dropped inside. As a novelty ceramic planter that still looks tidy, the Turtle lands better than most desk trinkets.
Shido Vegetable and Flower Seeds Vacuum sealed for peak freshness

The pot is sorted. Now what goes in it?

Shido seeds come vacuum-sealed, non-GMO, and packaged well enough that people keep the packets after the seeds are gone. Which is either a design success or a problem, depending on how you look at it.

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