Juniper do's and don'ts

[A Random User]

I learned a good lesson this past winter. I had a dozen junie, pro nanas and all were pot bound last fall. I got to as many as I could, which left four of them to suffer the winter potbound. Only one of those survived and it is still trying to come back. It's showing some new growth this summer, but weak and I doubt it will make it through another hard winter.

It's hard to say going in what your winter will be and our last was worse than normal. Usually my junies sail through winter no prob, but potbound and frozen was too much.

Those I repotted in fall had no problems, those I let winter potbound died. Won't do that again! Rick

Down here in Florida, when we have a hard freeze, we water our plants through it...
Because they are actually better off and stay warmer in ice, than they do exposed.
Your root bound plants would have no moisture retained in the soil and instead of
the soil freezing and insulating your plants, your plant froze.