Let me be the first to welcome you to the garden web and soon to GA. I am a transplant from CA (15yrs ago) so I know what it's like to learn a whole new climate zone.
Most herbs grow well here, either in the sun or partial summer sun. I'm sure that others with more herb experience will chime in. Good luck and come here often.
Where in GA will you be moving to? This will help us to understand your climate better for future reference.

there's a BIGGG difference from coastal Georgia and north Georgia. West Georgia is another area that doesn't match the other two. There is hard clay, beautiful loam that will grow anything and sandy stuff that can hardly be called soil. Let us know where you will be and there will be someone that can clue you in on the easiest way to make the change. From Mich. to Ga. is a large change. We plant daffodils in the fall. They have already bloomed here. We can put them anywhere there's sun.

grammasue52--welcome from me as well. I transplanted from Illinois (zone 5) in 2002. You will love gardening here once you find out the key differences. But we won't go into what they are until you tell us where you are going to be living. For me and my area the biggest adjustments were the complete difference in the soil and the extreme heat of the summer (and the duration--summer is long here, fall doesn't really start till late October as far as cooler temps go) I can say you have come to the right place. You will find this forum to be the best place to ask questions and just comiserate at times. The variety of plants that can be grown in this area is awesome.

Welcome! And I hope you learn to love gardening in Georgia. I sure have!

Welcome to Georgia gardening. You can plant daffodils anywhere you want. Can't tell you much about herbs. Oregano, parsley, chives, and rosemary do fine for me. And basil. That's all I've ever tried. If you want to grow okra, this is the place to be.

To be honest, if you get here in June, you might want to wait until next summer to get anything done. Containers are good, but I'm usually done digging by mid-June. July and August are really hard on plants here and its best to get things established in April to get them far enough along to last the hottest weather.

I have a book called "Month-by-Month Gardening in the South: What to do and when to do it" by Don Hastings and that routine has given me a beautiful back yard that evolves every year. It is full of the heirloom plants that our epitomize the South to those of us that grew up here. Good luck!

You may really want to try and restrain yourself as much as possible the first few months and get to know your yard, I am already undoing some of my first projects that I did before I got to really understand my yard and the sun/shade water patterns etc.

Waiting until the fall is a good idea. Depending on what section of the State you will be in, that's the time to put in things for Spring. In South Georgia, it gets HOT quickly and plants need to be well established. If you are going to be near the coast, (Savannah, Brunswick area) the humidity will be a problem on some things like lavender, phlox, etc.
Some things that need full sun elsewhere, will need to be shaded in the afternoon and well mulched to keep the roots cooler.

Regardless of where you land down here, you're going to find that an awful lot of plants that liked sun up there enjoy morning sun here and need some protection from afternoon sun. Many plants you've always thought of as needing full sun will actually do well in light dappled shade. Also regardless of area, as said, your gardening season is going to be much longer. This doesn't just mean a steamy buggy summer, but also extra long weeks of opportunity for lovely spring and fall gardens. Since I don't like gardening in the heat, I like to let my garden go "green" in the summer as much as possible and then start blooming all over again as the cooler weather begins--for me northeast of Atlanta around the first of September. This requires researching and tracking down plants that love to bloom thru fall to hard frost if the area has one, up here some time in mid-to-late November. And a whole vast world of new plants is here to be discovered--the more so the farther south you go, outnumbering the old favorites you have to let go many times over.

herbs - the only one I know who isn't happy here is lavender. it doesn't like the humidity. I am assured you can grow it, but you have to site it very carefully and prep the soil for it. what nobody's said yet is compacted, acid, red clay soil!! unless you are coastal sand.
welcome! you can garden nearly all year, it's wonderful.

Thanks for all the replies! Sorry it took me so long to get back here---been SO busy going thru the house and "downsizing".....we're going to be living in Kathleen....that's near Warner Robins.

Welcome, I hope you'll love Georgia. Warner Robins is in Houston county which is in the middle of the state. I have never heard of Kathleen, Georgia. Is it a small town? The good news is that you are not that far from the beach! There are lots of counties is Georgia and they are close. There's a story to that which I won't go into. I think you will find the area of the state you will be living is hotter than the Atlanta (Northeast Georgia) area. I was visiting my daughter at Georgia Southern (Bullock County) and stopped at several nurseries on the trip and saw several plants that I would be afraid to grow further north in my area due to our freezes. The ground here is red clay and requires lots of work, and I would expect much difference in that area. Not sure about the humidity there. Spring is the south is beautiful. You'll love it.

I think, (not sure) that you are going to be in what is called the Piedmont section of the State. If I am correct, then that means that you are going to be in the only really good soil in the entire state. Congratulations!! Of course, two blocks from you could be great and yours nothing but fill dirt. That section has milder winters than Atlanta and North Georgia. I would try all the herbs. Just be aware that some things like Mint, like it so well that they can take over the garden.