Five Questions & Strange Fungi

1)  Anyone have a good source for Astilboides tabularis?  How would they
do for fall planting?

2)  I have gunnera tinctoria that I ordered this year from Heronswood.
I transplanted it to a gallon pot and it seems to
be doing well.  Any suggestions for over wintering in the pot?  I have a
heated sunroom and an unheated (but dark) garage.

3)  I also have three Hakonecholoa maca 'Aureola';  also from Heronswood
and in pots.  I can't decide whether to put them in the ground and then
transplant in the spring when my site is ready - or to just bury the
pots....  suggestions??

4)  I have had marginal luck with ferns  :>(  although I do have a lot
of small, native ones in my woodland garden.  I would like to prepare a
spot in hopeful anticipation of growing huge, beautiful clumps of
ostrich ferns.  The native ones seem to like my soil - but I am
wondering if there is something else I can do to help assure
success?????

5)  I have had some strange fungi in my garden this year......  pink
ones, among others - but the strangest of all are these tubular ones,
cream colored, with orange-ish bands on the end.  I could smell them
from six feet away!  They have been gone for about a month, but the
aroma (believe it or not :>) persists, though not as strong, from the
soil where they were.  It is that deep, earthy "mushroom" type smell.
Anyone else ever have this??????

Tammy
Zone 5b
Mid-Missouri
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