Mail order shimpaku, climate change?

GailC

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I have a couple small shimpaku coming from Tennessee to Idaho this week.
Will they be ok outside in with the change of climate? We still occasionally have frost, sometimes quite heavy.
I can always bring them in on the coldest nights or snug them up against the house on the porch. They will be in 1 gallon nursery cans if that makes a difference.
 
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Only the low of 25 on Sunday? That would be the night I'd worry about.....and I would leave it out. Probably only a small time frame at those temps...pre-dawn hours most always the low.
 
I think I'll just pop them in on the back porch on the coldest nights. When it gets really cold, the frost comes early in the AM and last at least till noon.

I do have large pots I could bury them in but I believe the soil in them is still frozen.
 
I’d think they would be fine. If my weather was going to do what your forecast shows, I’d probably set them inside the back door for the nights it’s below 30f, and back outside the next AM.
 
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