Down To Earth Garden Club

Although you seemed satisfied with the answers that you got ,I was chafing at the bit trying to figure out how to do this.  If It`s all the same to you I wanted to tell you some plants I`ve tried. I don`t know how shady your  lot is but here are some that like dappled sunlight. Brown eyed susan,primrose,spiderwort,forget me nots,nicatinia,Hardy japanese anenome, balloon flower, and bleeding heart. For deep shade I`d go mostly woodland plants but there are not too many really showey ones. I plant daffodils, bloodroot,and trillium.

I do agree with lavender.  This is what I`d do next .Put them in plastic grocery bags or bag ,depending on how many you have. If you have a lot of large clumps, use 2or3. Water them lightly  and tie the tops loosely. If your basement has any kind of light source, put the bags in that vicinity but not next to the window. Sprinkle a little water on them every so often but don`t forget that you have them, and by spring you should some hulking big rhisomes. Yes divide them before planting,one or ywo per hole depending on how big they are.