with all of the above also. We are not too far south of you and our local nursery guru says that fall is the best time to plant shrubs because they have more time to settle in. A good layer of mulch is also suggested.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam