Betsy... You might over winter it out there.. Watch out it is a rampant grower...it's grown some 20 ft with a pile of vines...growing about that long all ready this year.. I've started them on strings across the roof to a tall mast some 20 ft away.. From the top of the 10 ft trellis they climbed to.. Then took off.... They are the strongest growing anything I have seen..