Shearing Wholesale cutting back of a plant, rather than selective pruning or deadheading. Often used to regenerate plants with many, small stems, where deadheading would be too time consuming.
Available sunlight may sometimes be increased through selective pruning.
Pruning: Many vines need selective pruning to keep them healthy and attractive -- and in bounds! Begin the process when plants are small by pinching off stem tips to encourage branching. Always remove damaged, diseased, weak, and dead stems.
Certainly you will want to learn the basics and practice selective pruning of your fruit trees and shrubs on a yearly basis, removing crossing branches, suckers and watersprouts; opening up and reinvigorating older plants; ...
shear To cut back a plant (as opposed to selective pruning or deadheading). Often used to regenerate plants with many small stems, where deadheading would be too time-consuming.
5) To influence fruiting and flowering. Proper pruning of flower buds encourages early vegetative growth. You can also use selective pruning to stimulate flowering in some species, and to help produce larger (though fewer) fruits in others.
Many broadleaf evergreens can be pruned in the dormant season. New growth will cover cuts and fill in exposed inner branches. Selective pruning on rhododendron can be used to thin out vegetative wood while leaving stems with larger flower buds.
I had it on my front potsch where it goy morning light. I had at least a hundred blooms until about Mid August. Should I have done some selective pruning to keep them blooming? The color was purple with a green border.
 See also: Pruning, Plant, Shrub, Spring, Water
  
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