Tips Growing Floribunda

• The term ‘floribunda’ meaning large clusters of flowers has been taken over by rose trees with these floral characteristics.
• The flowers are usually borne over long periods and are more tolerant than Hybrid Tea roses from which they were crossed with polyantha varieties.
• When planting prune the roots back to 8 or 10 inches.  It encourages new root growth of the fibrous kind that do the feeding and watering.
• Prune floribunda roses to a bush shape rather than hard as you would an HT rose. New growth will never be stronger than the stem it grows from so prune out weak stems that are over a year old.
• With over 20 buds to open on this tree in October this rose has earnt it’s keep this year.

Origins of the Floribunda Rose
The Santa Clarita rose society link has a history of Floribundas ‘The first floribunda roses were introduced in the early twentieth century. While breeding officially began by such hybridizers as Poulsen, Nicholas, and Kordes, it is believed that the very first floribunda was Peter Lambert’s 1903 cross of a polyantha named Mignonette with a tea rose called Souvenir de Mme. Savlayrolles, which produced a variety called Schneekopf….’