Winter Protection
"Winter has me in its grip
Think I'll take a summer trip
On a sunny sailing ship
Where the shells lie in the sand" ...
Winter Protection:
Mild winter areas: Protect bonsai from winds and heavy winter storms by moving to a sheltered area.
Winter Protection for Airlayers
There seems to be general panic where the Winter and airlayers are concerned. The cold and frosts will not damage the airlayer itself. The airlayer itself is just a wound that will have callused over.
No winter protection is needed for temperate climate woody plants until the temperature falls below 15F (-10C).
Complete winter protection in a tightly sealed environment, it's still and calm always inside, there is ample humidity.
It's big enough to hold all of my trees without crowding them or forcing branches together.
In northern climates winter protection from freeze-drying winds is necessary. Trees should be kept in anunheated area. An unheated garage, shed, breezeway, or cold frame can provide this. Check with your bonsai club for other ways.
In areas colder than zone 8, you must prepare your plants for winter protection. This begins in the fall by allowing your plants to experience the full brunt of the early freezes to trigger their cold hardiness mechanisms.
Pines in containers will require winter protection for the roots. This may be done by digging a hole and submerging the pine container in the ground and mulching the tree up to the first branch.
The following require greenhouse Winter protection:
-Common juniper (J. communis)
- Hornibrook Juniper (J. communis)
- Japanese Needle Juniper (J. rigida)
- Drooping Juniper (J. recurva)
- Squamata Juniper (J. squamata) ...
These little gems are hardy enough to grow outdoors in zones 6-10 without winter protection, and with a good cover of mulch they will survive winters as far north as zone 4.
Position: Full sun, but needs shade from the midday sun in summer, as somtimes needle will brown. Dont need any special winter protection, though younger plants will benifit from some form of winter protection.
This facility includes a hexagonal, redwood lath house to display the collection during the growing season and a concrete-block cold storage for winter protection. The latter maintains temperatures between 33 and 35 degrees Fahrenheit.
Rose, Miniature (Rosa chinensis) - indoor plant, or outdoor with winter protection. Small rose flowers, small leaves, perfect except they get spider mite indoors! Needs sun, dead head for continuous bloom.
Temperature: Being a warm weather plant, they must be provided winter protection. They can usually tolerate die back from a freeze, but will withhold blooms for awhile.
Yaupons seem to lean toward the ‘old oak tree' style when shaping for bonsai. Small flowers will appear on second year wood in the spring. Yaupon are only hardy in zones 7-9 so a lot of winter protection is required.
Pyracantha coccinea are more hardy than others in winter and can survive frosts. However, it is advisable to protect them from very cold winds and temperatures below -5 degrees Centigrade. Less hardy species should be given winter protection.
There are a few plants that will cope with indoor cultivation for short periods of time; often these are tropical species that require winter protection against the cold, ...
I have several desert type trees in my collection and I have found that these do best under these conditions also. In the winter, the shade cloth is removed and the house is covered with plastic to provide necessary winter protection for my more ...
Keep the ones most nearly on the horizontal and on opposite sides of the branch. At this time go on with the normal autumn care of your trees until it is almost time to put it into winter protection.
 See also: Bonsai, Plant, Tree, Light, Watering
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