Janet Tweedy wrote:
How about planting up some pots that you could take with you?

Can we start another thread then for what's best for winter pots. Most I
see are usually weird combinations or those blasted artificial looking
heathers and cabbages

Mine currently have some ivy, pansies, cyclamen and some kind of
non-trailing lobelia, apparently. (They don't look like any kind of
lobelia I've seen!)
Oh, it could be this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobelia_inflata