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When using an aggressive feeding/watering schedule, as Walter Pall suggests, on lime-hating plants like azaleas, should a fertilizer like Miracid be used at each feeding? Or should it just be once a month and then be fed with plain MG or similar during the rest of the time?

I have an Ilex crenata that I bought at a fall sale at a local nursery last season. My question is how hard can these be cut back and how well do they back bud. Can they be treated like boxwood and reduced to a stump basically or should they be reduced gradually over a few seasons?

I have a fairly large Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana' that I will be styling for the first time this season. This will leave me with a good bit of material to try and root. Does any one know how thick a cutting can be rooted with these?

Thought I would try my hand at a tropical and since schefflera are available and cheap I picked one up. I have read that spring is the time to re-pot. I'm wondering though what the best time to do a heavy chop is. If I plan to re-pot in the spring can I do a heavy pruning in say late winter? The...