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can they live in pots?
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I have a lot of digitalis, geums, and coreopsis and delphinuims all grown from plug plants, (courtesy of gardens world offer) I potted them on and they are doing really well, my problem is I'm hoping to move house within the next year and don't want to leave them all behind, would they be happy in tubs till they are planted in a new garden some time?
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Yes, but give them decent soil, not just multi-purpose compost. I'd give them John Innes Loam-based compost No 2.
http://www.gardeningdata.co.uk/soil/john_innes/john_innes.php
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can grow anything in a pot, but you must then do all for the plants that they woful do for themselves in the open ground. Some winter protection with fleece will help the rots not to freeze come winter. I'd suggest a mixture of John Innes 2 and organic multipurpose compost, with vermiculite to open it for drainage.
This is why I need to pull some of my plants out of their pots and swap at least some of the compost to something better...
Yes and as others said.
However I thought it worth mentioning that they will all dig up and transplant pretty well.
I've found that Digitalis doesn't do at all well in pots, I'd put that one in the ground. As it's a biennial it will die next year anyway.