Fall is the new spring.
Really it's the first spring, because it marks both the end of the old growing season and the beginning of a new one.
Fall, not spring, is actually when a new year's crop first comes to life. Where I live, mid-October is when garlic gets planted. Come November it's time to get the tulips and daffodils in the ground; you want to make sure all your spring bulbs have a chance to to start growing well before the first deep frost.
Fall is also when the spring buds on most plants first appear. By early-November, in fact, the magnolia tree in my front yard looks like it's ready to burst into bloom.
So yeah, fall really is the new spring. Nature takes a far more continuous approach to things than we typically conceive of in our relatively simplified seasonal schema.
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fall is the new spring
when the growing season begins
buds and bulbs well set
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