Rose Guide
How to Prune Floribunda Roses
Prune floribundas in late winter, cutting back by about a third and thinning out old and weak wood. Prune them more lightly than hybrid teas to keep the bushy, cluster-flowering habit that gives their long display.
Floribundas flower in clusters on a bushy plant, and the aim of pruning is to keep that framework full rather than to reduce it to a few tall canes. In late winter, remove dead, damaged, and spindly growth, and take out one or two of the oldest canes at the base to encourage fresh shoots.
Then shorten the remaining healthy canes by about a third, cutting to outward-facing buds. This lighter touch — compared with the hard pruning a hybrid tea gets — preserves the many stems that carry a floribunda's generous, season-long clusters.