So I have this plant in the backyard and have no idea how to trim it. It grew too tall (all the way to the room) and if I just cut the top its just going to look weird. Is this one of those cases where the plant just grew so large it's time to remove it? I've attached a picture so you know what I'm working with. Its the plant on the left side touching the gutter. I just don't see how it could look natural if I end up nearly cutting the thing in half. [URL=http://s7.photobucket.com/user/Boomer1978/media/plant.jpg.html][IMG]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y278/Boomer1978/plant.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

OK, so we have this kousa dogwood tree that needs help. It needs to be fertilized and we have determined that 2 lbs of fertilizer per 1" of trunk diameter. This means with a 4" trunk we need 8 lbs of fertilizer. Here comes the tricky part. We need to use a fertilizer mix of 16-4-8. We can't find 16-4-8, but we were able to locate a 2.75 lb bag of 12-0-0 (nitrogen), a 7.25 lb bag of 0-3-0 (phosphorus) and a 4 lb bag of 0-0-60 (potash). So how do we use what we found to get a mix of 8 lbs of 16-4-8?