# Save my bonsai tree before I kill again

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 22, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-my-bonsai-tree-before-i-kill-again/671934 "2013-10-22T15:29:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/save-my-bonsai-tree-before-i-kill-again/671934/1 "2013-10-22T15:29:05Z")

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So I bought a bonsai tree that’s pretty cool last summer at an estate sale and it has been thriving outside. When I first got it I put it in a window with sun and gave it only bottled water but the leaves started falling off and I feared that I was going to kill yet another plant so outside it went. Well it’s starting to frost and I am not sure what is best to do. Should I leave it outside and let it go dormant over the winter like a regular tree, take to the garage where it doesn’t freeze and let it go dormant there or try again to get it to live in the house? It’s about 1 and a 1/2 feet tall and almost 2 feet long with about 5 trunk/branches wrapped around each other. It only cost me $20, but that’s not the point; it’s alive and I have had no luck with plants other than [these](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Japanese-Jade-Glass-Bonsai-Tree-Celadon-Vase-/150666622874). 😃