Ive just left mine alone in my border for 3or4 years now and still surviving and always one of the first signs of spring for my garden, i just wish they flowered longer. ;)

I just would like them to come back the following year at all!

I watched this to John last night and would love to grow pans of these to .

I used to have them in my garden but for some yrs now they have never come back.

I have them in deeper pots on the wall and in the rockery and as long as they get baked in the summer they will come back yr on yr. I have some on their 15th year know. I personally find the deeper they are the better they do.

I actually watched this program last night (stuck in a hotel bedroom). Like Sbg I would have used a full pan and a gritty, loam based compost. Yes, I do this and re-pot them every year. After flowering put the pots in the sun-heated greenhouse and leave them there until you want to bring them out at the end of winter. Re-potting, for me, is done after the leaves have died down.