I would give them a pot each and get them planted asap as they shoul dbe developing new root systems now to help them cope with all the foliage and new stems they'll produce in spring. As Nut says, you want balanced growth so a pot each.
Soak the roots in a bucket of luke warm water for an hour before planting so they are fully rehydrated. Use the best compost you can find - Jon Innes 2 or 3 - not multi purpose as this can turn into a solid block which is difficult to hydrate. To ensure good flowering potential, give them regular feeds of liquid rose or tomato fertiliser after the first couple of months as the fertiliser in the compost only lasts 3 months at best.
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How big are the roots now?
If not too big they should survive, kept fed and watered
A bigger problem might be unbalanced top growth
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Can you explain more the problem of unbalanced growth please. Thanks.
If you have 2 shrubs in one pot the growth will be towards the light, on the outside edge, rather than towards each other in the middle.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I would give them a pot each and get them planted asap as they shoul dbe developing new root systems now to help them cope with all the foliage and new stems they'll produce in spring. As Nut says, you want balanced growth so a pot each.
Soak the roots in a bucket of luke warm water for an hour before planting so they are fully rehydrated. Use the best compost you can find - Jon Innes 2 or 3 - not multi purpose as this can turn into a solid block which is difficult to hydrate. To ensure good flowering potential, give them regular feeds of liquid rose or tomato fertiliser after the first couple of months as the fertiliser in the compost only lasts 3 months at best.