Don't change anything, you have a very happy plant. You can remove anything that is brown, otherwise leave it alone. It should probably be repotted at some point, but read up on it first. Repotting an orchid is different than a house plant but not particularly hard. Get Ortho's All About Orchids book which is available at a lot of book stores and garden centers as well as Amazon. What is the orchid potted in? You should use the same material to repot. It will be either an orchid mix (bark pieces mostly) or sphagnum moss. Here is a link that might be useful: blog.backbulb.com

I must be luckier than most of you. I have for years planted rooted cuttings with a 2 litre bottle over them in the fall, had most of them survive the winter and thrive the following spring. Those with yellow blooms are the hardest to overwinter. The bottle cap acts to moderate both temperature and humidity. If the cutting has developed a new cane by autumn, the cap comes off until temperatures are really cold, and the plant is dormant; then, it goes back on. It stays until early spring, when the temperatures rise. The humidity in the bottle in spring can cause molds to develop. It is important to leave the bottle on, but not the cap, until after the last frost for two reasons: one, the cuttings may succumb to the freeze, and two, the bunnies like to lunch on the tender darlings. Usually, the cuttings get a head start in their little greenhouses in the spring. Of course, as Michael says, there is no guarantee of its survival. That is why I typically take three cuttings from the same plant. One has a chance of survival (and often all three do!), and groups of three look rather good in the garden, supposing I don't feel generous enough to give one or two away. In any case, good luck with your baby and the choice you make for overwintering it. Steve.

Music. Hardy, widely adapted, dependable, stores very well for a hardneck, large easy to use cloves, bulbs can get large, strong flavor (so easy to cook with). I still have some usable bulbs from last year's July/August harvest. VietNamese Red makes a nice, milder companion variety, but does not store as well; so does Siberian. I also like Japanese, also large cloves and seems to be also very dependable. Big robust plants, seems to be a bit earlier than Music. These all have the added feature of scapes for early summer cooking. Those are my favorites, but zone 8 suggests that the Creoles might be just what you would like, even though they are not so well adapted to my Minnesota garden.

My garlic sprouts every year before winter. The shoots kind of just sit there green all winter in suspended animation. Yes, I'm in a colder zone than you... but I would just mulch it well for the winter, and don't worry about it.