Insulated Plant pots

One of the problems that we face here in the subtropics during summer, is broiling our pot plants in their own juices.... With the heat we have during warmer weather when the sun heats the surface and sides of our pot plants.

Why plant companies insist on putting our plants in black plastic pots is something I do not understand as things coloured black, like most of our pots conducts heat faster and more than other colours.....

The solution is to place your pot plants whole including the pot inside a slightly bigger pot, and filling the space with something like chip bark, between the two pots.

This will provide an insulating layer between the the roots and potting mix and the part of the pot which is being heated by the sun or at least the outside hot atmosphere.

Try to keep this insulating bark layer dry so that it will not conduct either heat or even cold from the outside pot to the inner pot holding the pot plants soil and roots. As water or even moisture will only assist in conducting heat between the two pot layers.

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