If you live in zones 6-7, it's time to plant spring flowering bulbs now. You have to plant them now if you want to enjoy their displays in spring. There's also a sort of poetic justice in planting them now. Soon we'll be robbed of our glorious fall foliage and plunging headlong into the inevitability of winter, causing us to feel a bit spiteful. Planting spring flowering bulbs is more than just a landscaping chore; it's also a Trojan-Horse trap that we set for Old Man Winter. He'll soon tighten his icy grip around our spring flowering bulbs -- but little does he know that they are the seeds of his own (eventual) destruction.