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[Ain't Nobody Here]

I have loads of pansies and violas which have been fantastic this summer (their first) mainly due, I hope, to my incessant deadheading .

 

The pansies especially are getting very leggy and spreading and I don't know what to do about it. Do I wait till they've finished flowering then cut them down nearly to the ground? Should I do it now so they have a chance to regrow a bit before winter? Or do I leave them as they are (would the foliage be protection over the winter?)

 

I believe pansies & violas can be perennial?

 

Some also have some sort of disease, if strange blotches and markings on the leaves are anything to go by. Should they be ditched or will they grow normally next year?

 

I'm hoping some seasoned gardeners might have the answers for me .

[mollyripkim]

I have dug out a full border of pansies that had been in since spring, I find deadheading very therapeutic, but they were getting a bit stringy and the flowers smaller. The roots were tiny compared to the size of the plant so I don't think they would regrow. Can't remember the name but there is a disease that pansies can get that lives in the soil and can affect the next seasons plants - I think I read somewhere you have to miss a season but can grow something else. Hopefully someone else will know.

[beach chick]

I've always treated them as annuals, just because although they can sometimes make a comeback they are never as good as they were before. I had a huge, beautiful pot this year of pale purple ones which went a bit stringy, so I chopped them down - tho they have made an effort the flowers are much smaller and much more spread out, so they will go into the chickens for a bit of destruction I think.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I've always treated them as annuals,

Same here. Mine self seed happily so I leave them just pulling up the straggly ones that flowered this year just about now