self seeding flowers all mixed up

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

Now I know this may seem a stupid question but here goes.
I have a large yard garden and have over 50 medium sized pots with flowers ect.Last year I had giant white and giant blue pansies and also some yellow and some orange alpine poppies.
I'm pleased to say they've both come back in abundance and I've had some variations on the colours.
The pansies have both come back true to colour and some of the white have also come back as striped with blue and pale lilac.Also some of the yellow poppies are realy pretty as they have come through as yellow dotted with orange blotches.I also have a beautiful apricot one.
What I'd like to know is will these die out after this year or will the seed off these particular plants keep coming back in the pretty colours they are now or is there anything I can do to help them.
Thanks.

Jake'sGran

I have the yellow poppy all over the garden. Someone described as like a weed as it grows anywhere, which is true. It is the Welsh poppy and I think it's great. When the flower falls I let the heads dry up a bit and then shake them over over. To keep things a bit tidier I sometimes just cut them off the foliage and split the pod with my nails and throw them around. I didn't pansies were as tough as you describe. I would have expected to lose them over winter - loveley surprise not to. On TV last week Carol Kline said that if you move the big poppies (I have the huge bright red Somniferum one) you will find that they come back in the original spot...and it's true! I have four huge ones out at the moment. My daughter has a large pink one and I kept one of her seed heads to dry out. This year I have put it in compost in pots and it looks like I will have a lot of them - so, all you need are seeds from the dry pod to ensure they come back or you could just try splitting the roots. .Seeds are easier ( Sorry, but I do get carried away away about plants).

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I love the alpine poppy.The one's I have came from seed my aunt got from the garden of a cottage she rented whilst on holiday nearly 30 years ago.
I've brought the seed to all the houses we've lived in.
They flower for around eight months of the year as new plants keep appearing as old ones die so you always have some colour in the garden.
The pansies I have are also a few years old.I just cut them back to the soil every winter and they pop back up in the spring.I also collect the seed from these and just grow new plants.The ones that have come up this year are realy pretty though with stripes and marbling.
I'm just hoping they'll not revert back to the plain flower next year.