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You can transplant cold hardy bare root deciduous plants anytime during the winter that you can manage to dig a hole in the ground. If the plant is borderline cold hardy,it is best transplanted in late winter after the worst of the cold snaps are past. When transplanting, be sure to keep it well watered over the first summer if you have any summer droughts. Here in the hot and sometimes droughty south, if possible we try to transplant in the fall to give the transplant all winter and spring to get its roots established before facing any possible summer droughts.