Possible Clues:

• Cut everyone up, being worsted
• Scales of 'Fawlty Towers'
• Scales maybe overturned, all fruit on top
• Scales, perhaps, everything back after cut
• This genus in the mint family includes selfheal
• Scales going up fully, needs to get trim on top
• Silk fabric cut completely from the bottom
• Lawn weed: cut the whole lot back
• Cut back all around plant
• ... she cut everything back