Viola patio pots - advice

jprboy

Bought 2 viola patio pots today like these:

https://www.woodies.ie/viola-patio-pot-1131972

Am I best just leaving them in the pots or should I transplant them to the garden?

If I do transplant can I split them out?

Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks

looksee

They could be a bit lost in the garden. If the pot looks very full it might be worth dividing them into a bigger pot, but if you are not used to handling plants its a bit dodgy with them in full flower.

I would suggest leaving them in the pot until a lot of flowers have died back, then trimming the heads off them (use a scissors). At that stage you can leave them to produce another flush of flowers or possibly consider dividing them into a bigger pot.

On balance, leave them be, trim the flowers when they die off, regard them as finished in spring, at which stage you could put them in a corner of the garden and see if they 'take'. They are best treated as a one season plant.

jprboy

Will leave them be, so!

Thanks for taking the time to reply in such detail, looksee.