Big Garden Pot – Braeside

It stands on Springvale Road at Braeside, in Melbourne's south-eastern industrial and nursery belt – a stretch of arterial road lined with garden centres, landscape suppliers and trade outlets, where every business faces the same problem of being one large shed among many. An oversized version of the product is the cheapest available solution and, on a road where drivers are already looking for exactly this kind of business, probably the most effective.

Garden retail has produced a surprising number of these objects. A wholesale nursery in Ourimbah has a giant flower; a landscaping yard at Plainland has a giant frog in a top hat; and this one has a pot. The category exists because the customers are already in the market and only need to be told, quickly, that they have arrived.

Current specialist Big Things coverage identifies the pot at Pots Galore, and the business operates seven days a week at 770 Springvale Road.

Its size, material, maker and date are not recorded, which is entirely typical for an object that was almost certainly ordered as signage rather than commissioned as art.