Name: Big Bill Livonia Michigan (Zone 6a) If you need to relax, grow plants!!
Take as much soil as you can when you dig them out of the container.
You may think that they will do better in a partly shaded garden. I would reconsider. Dianthus love full sun. The more the better. But they do not like the intense heat and blazing sun.
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.