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Disclaimer:

• This is my first post to the forum, and I have high hopes that others, who are more experienced, can help me.

Important Background Info:

• I live in Minnesota; here, the winter seasons can be a bit extreme.

• I am on my 2nd attempt at managing a Japanese garden Juniper bonsai.

• In addition to that main Juniper 名媛直播, I have several cuttings from that plant that are in their 2nd month of being freshly propagated.

The Issue At Hand:
As I mentioned before, Minnesota winters can be very extreme. The past several winters, I have seen temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit for an extended amount of time. I know Junipers are outdoor bonsai and are frost-resistant. However, I don't think my Juniper can survive the extreme cold weather I mentioned before. Am I correct in this assumption? If so; can my Juniper 名媛直播 and cuttings survive indoors? If so; under what conditions?

Depends what you mean by “indoor”.
If it’s “in my house”, the answer is definitely “no”.
But it could be an unheated garage (with natural light tho, or a good substitute to it) or a cold frame of some sort.

Notice one thing tho: junipers are local to Minnesota too.
And they survive without getting indoor, AFAIK :lol:
Reason is: if the plant is buried by snow it will be insulated from wind and extreme frost, while still receiving a good amount of light.

As always, particularly with bonsai and plants in general, the best choice is looking at how nature solves it and then try to do something as close to that as possible.

I'm up in Alaska where it gets down to -40 and was wondering what I'm going to do with my trees this winter too. It's only my first year growing "bonsai" (more like some sticks in pots) but, I do have a few interesting trees that have some potential that I would like to survive.

I planned on just putting them under some larger trees in my yard and burying them as much as I can in the leaves that drop during the fall. I also saved all of last years leaves before my wife put them in the compost. I figured this was as close to nature as I could get. Little trees are generally under and around larger trees and get slightly buried/insulated by dropped leaves.

The only thing I'm worried about is that the roots will be above ground in pots and won't be getting insulated buy the earth. If I could, I would dig a trench, bury at least the pots in leaves and cover them with a cheap pvc arch greenhouse for the winter but, I don't think my land lord would apricate me digging a trench in the back yard.

I'm only growing local material so I guess any that don't survive the winter are inferior specimens that I probably wouldn't want to baby for years anyways.

Do you have junipers growing naturally around you? How are they protected in winter? My guess is snow. Snow is an excellent isolation and protect the tree good. I am in a much milder location but sometimes we get down to minus 15 degrees without any snow. That is the real danger. Even junipers in the forest suffer.