Sound Gardening: Put the garden to bed (Greenwich Time)

Time to end the gardening season: The leaves are finally down, so you can decide which ones should stay in your garden, which get mulched to turn into compost, and which -- already composted -- get put back on those beds and borders.

Arizona Gardening: Fall Anna apples are a little too late (East Valley Tribune)

Q: I have what I think is an Anna apple tree, but it is maturing fruit in November. I thought apples in the Valley only ripened fruit in early summer. The apples are only the size of golf balls and the leaves have brown edges. Do you have any diagnosis for my tree?

Get advice and have fun at Central Texas Gardening events and workshops (Austin American-Statesman)

Strawberry plant sale. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Tuesday . Ronda's Montessori Garden, 4300 Mount Vernon Drive. Plants are $3 each. Donations appreciated. 707-8635, www.rondasgarden.net.

Kwangbok Street Designated as Greening Model (Korean Central News Agency)

Pyongyang, November 21 (KCNA) -- Kwangbok Street in Pyongyang was designated as a model unit for the country in greening and gardening when the autumn land management campaign was making headway.

Weekend Work: Make the most of the unexpectedly mild weather (Independent)

Unexpectedly mild weather at the beginning of the month made gardening more of a pleasure than it usually is in November. The cyclamen are still on the go, the viburnums are in full, smelly flow, the fuchsias are flowering more wildly than they have at any time before.