garliclady - thanks for the information on the varieties that work for you. I ordered a one pound sampler from Charley's Farm. It arrived today, and the garlics are beautiful. I got: Asian Tempest, Gigantus (Rocambole), Chesnok Red, Polish Hardneck, Early Red Italian, Thermadrome and Silver White. All in all, I am very pleased with the good variety they sent, and I have taken one clove of each to taste. So far, I am much impressed!! :) The bulbs are all fresh and large. I have sent an inquiry to a grower for some Music if they have any left....I really would like some good large true garlic. I also have about a dozen huge cloves of elephant garlic that I grew myself, which I will plant next month, but I'd really like at least that much more of it. Trouble is, it's so darn expensive. What I grew was from an organic clove I bought at the grocery store. If you should happen to find out when the garlic festival in MD will be, and where, please do let me know. Thanks so much

Did you recieve from a company that ships at planting time? Otherwise you could plant you'd have really late blooms but if the tuber had at least 1 good size eye on it than why not!

Who was it around here who would take cuttings and get them to root and then actually flower by putting them under lights inside his house? I'd love to hear some more about what happened to the plants after that. For instance, did they survive into the next year well enough to be planted out? My experience in this is that I took some cuttings a couple summers ago about this time of year and put them into a bucket which I then put into one of my overwintering mounds. They survived and put out leaves and flowers the next season. But they didn't put on any roots over the winter. I neglected the plants except to throw some water and fertilizer in their general direction for last summer and this. About one fourth of them survived all this and just a couple of weeks ago I potted them up. Many years ago I cut some Viburnum cuttings in the Fall and did nothing more than jam them into some moist soil. Today, they're 12 feet tall. Hay

Well, Howdy! You will enjoy Texas........gardening here is quite a challenge and thus quite meaningful! You can basically go one of two ways.......xeriscape or native with little continual watering....... or semi-tropical with plenty of water and dragging the tender plants around for cover in the Winter. I opted for the semi-tropical among the old "everywhere" stand-bys of shrubs, woody perennials, and roses. Everything else (and those shrubs too, actually) need to be mulched. Of the plants you intend to transport, ajuga is probably the only one that will make it with lots of special care (and shade). If you move in the Winter, you may have the lamium for a short while. I would not bother, except for sentimental reasons and it was very convenient to pot them up. If you have indoor begonias etc, I would bring those.