Wiktionary
pot-bound
a. (context of a potted plant English) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.
Usage examples of "pot-bound".
These were surveyor’s plats laying out Ravenscar’s scheme to embed a few square blocks of Cartesian rationality on the pot-bound root-ball that was the London street system.
Garnering little pot-bound slips of power, consumed by the dreams of what I might have had.