Need an opinion...I am thinking about moving my Orientals into a whiskey barrel. I have had trouble with voles cutting them down and am thinking that putting them in a barrel would make them less accessible to the devil's little pets and enable me to give a little bit more control and care to them. I am in Z5 and usually have good snow cover all winter (last year an exception). Would they survive the winter in a barrel, being more exposed to wind and freeze/thaw and such?

Thanks for you input.

Mark