Q: My rubber plant is top heavy, and the roots are coming out of the soil in the container. How do I trim it and root the limbs? I also have a tall schefflera that keeps falling over. How do I trim it ...

“Root pruning” sounds like such a brutal way to treat a plant. Yet it’s a periodic necessity once any potted plant has grown as large as you want it to. Potted plants — like other plants — grow, and ...