A standing dachshund, 25 inches nose to tail, 13 inches tall and 6 inches deep, with the wire frame packed full of sphagnum moss and a pair of brown eyes set into the face.
The moss is the finish, so the dog is green from the day it arrives and needs nothing done to it. It is also a growing medium: press small ivy or creeping fig into the moss, keep it damp, and the plant will root through and take over the coat. Indoors it sits on a hall table or a hearth. Outside it goes on a step, a low wall, or straight into a bed among the planting where the long body shows.
Unplanted there is nothing to keep alive. Planted, it needs what the plant needs and nothing more. The frame underneath is hand bent powder-coated wire in several gauges, which is why the measurements run close rather than exact and why no two dachshunds come out quite the same.
