We have at least one source on the retail shelves here in Minneapolis, the two locations of Mother Earth Gardens. They have their bulb stock of seed garlic right along with that of their tulip bulbs. Good looking bulbs, too, at least they were a couple of weeks back. Most nurseries around here do not stock fall seed garlic, though. I also suggest some Googling. There seem to be more on-line suppliers who have not completely sold out at this point than in prior years. What I ordered was placed quite some time ago and the last is now being shipped; so I ordered early and keep most of my own stock anyway, but I still enjoy shopping. It seems to me that I am seeing fewer out of stocks this fall than in previous years. BTW I have had pretty good luck with seed garlic from the Pacific NW even though I garden in Minnesota. My original Music stock came from Red Gate in Montana and has been good from the beginning. Those who live in Wisconsin might want to stop in the Jung's garden centers. I got my VietNamese Red replacement from them online this fall. My yellow multiplier onions also originally came from them. One might also search on line, in farmer's markets or in grocery stores for organic culinary garlic. Those will normally be a bit smaller but can also be seeded. Those are not always or even often labeled as to variety however.

If it is thrips, you will be able to see damage in the white part of the rose. That is where it shows up most clearly. You will see brown streaks or tiny brown spots. In your case I would be tempted to leave it for a few days just to find out for sure which one is causing it. Once you know you can remove any damaged roses promptly. This may reduce (but not eliminate) the spread of the thrips. You'll probably take the proliferating ones off as well but it's not so important in that case. Rosefolly

I’m starting to think there might be an insect issue however. One of my other cuttings has an inflo on it and has begun dropping buds like crazy all of a sudden :( They go from healthy looking to turning black and falling off within what seems like hours. I’ve lost 3 already this morning.

I hope your begonias have turned out well! I was disappointed with the results of my Botanus begonias. Okay, they were nice quality tubers upon arrival and quickly had sprouted into life, but two of the three have proven untrue to name. 'Angelique' was correct, though 'Pink Delight' wasn't, it's suppose to be a cascading fragrant variety, but instead was strongly upright with THICK stems and huge NON fragrant flowers. The yellow cascading is also instead a strongly upright plant. So, there went my anticipated display for the shaded front entrance of the house!