Pansies

Yes MOnica, you will be surprised at how quickly they perk up and regenerate. I’ve got loads as they self seed. Good luck and I hope yours do the same.

Just before I saw your message Forsythia I chnaged my mind about leaving them decided on something similar to your suggestion.

We have external decorators in this week and the pot and hanging basket with the pansies has had to be moved, and despite the flowers the plants themselves are looking a bit long in the tooth, so I have decided to transfer them into a border at the back of the house and replant the containers with summer flowers

At the end of May I dig my pansies out of pots and put them in a border where they throw their seeds and multiply all ready for next year. I have had masses this spring all from 6 plants bought last year. They look lovely in the borders. I then put summer bedding in my pots and hanging baskets.

My hanging basket of violas will be relegated to the back garden when they are replaced by trailing geraniums.
In past years they’ve self seeded in the front. It’s lovely to see them pop up randomly.

Now is the time to sow winter pansies if you fancy them for next winter.

If they start to go straggly cut them back and they will rejuvenate.

Yes violas/pansies do keep going often right through winter into the next summer. I hadn’t dead headed but will now.
My wallflowers which I used to dig up after a season are on their 5th year. I just cut them down in autumn and up they pop.

I love them. They just keep going!

Mine usually do well but the birds seem to think the yellow ones are an annual picnic provided just for them and peck them to bits!

I have managed before successfully. then following year lost them?
Correct info dead head all the time don't let them go to seed. If I notice lots of seed heads, I cut right back then they come up nicely, remember to feed.
Good luck

Thank you. Stay they will then, and I will take great care of them.

Feed every couple weeks, dead head. They should last till July.

Mine are still going strong too - one set in a hanging basket, others in a shallow container. Lovely display of bright yellow that has nothing at all to do with my gardening skills as I just planted them and left them alone all winter!
I'm intending to keep watering and dead-heading and to give them a feed every now and then.
Fingers crossed.

Mine went virtually all year round last year - my "winter pansies" are very much going strong.

Some years mine have stayed right through the summer and then, some years not.