Specialty Gardening: Pots when it gets hot, 1 by sylguy

sylguy wrote:
I have a huge pot collection because here in my part of Austin, I'm in pure caliche so I either palnt in pots or raised gardens. I'm moved away from clay pots except for my cactus and succulents as the get too hot and dry out too fast. In Spring and Fall when it's a bit cooler and they hold moisture I use them without saucers but in the Summer heat I have deeper thatn normal proportioned saucers under clay pots...some times clay colored plastic one. I have almost everything else in expanded polystyrene pots. They have a skin of color or are stone toned, etc. They keep plants considerably cooler, hold moisture and for us older gardeners are lighter to move. There's so much variaty out there.