I cannot help you with the elephant garlic, which isn't a garlic at all. It will be extremely mild compared to "real" gourmet, heirloom garlic.
Gene, I would suspect that garlic would grow for you in SC about the same as it would here in NE Mississippi. Y'all in Greenville are only 1.5 degrees north of us here in Starkville. You pretty much get the same weather patterns as we do, only a day or two later. I plant hardneck, softneck, and Creole. They all do well for me. I generally plant around 4 varieties of the hardneck, 6 of the softneck, and 2-4 Creole (it sometimes is very hard to come by for planting). I did not even write down the specific varieties last fall. I total the harvest in May/June.
