hi my name is sanga lindsey i'm a landscape architect here in north vancouver and it is late early april actually in vancouver and i'm going to show you today how to prune a flora bunda rose flora bundas are typically those roses that are more bush like as opposed to the hybrid teas the hybrid teas are typically your red roses or they can be any color but the very tight flower that you get for say valentine's day the flora bundas tend to be the ones that look more like the peonies very roughly very multi-puddled and very open this here is a floribunda rose in vancouver we often struggle with our roses because it is a bit wet and damp and they're not exactly conducive to growing roses they like it sunny hot dry with just water at their base so even though we didn't have a hard winter you can see this one sort of came through the winter not too great so this is one of the other reasons why we need to give it a good prune and try to resurrect it so the trick with floribunda roses are and unfortunately we won't get it on this one is you want to leave seven canes on your roses say out east in ontario you typically get a very very vigorous floribunda but a cane is what you this is what you call a cane this main central stalk here and a very healthy flora bondo will have a multitude of them like even 20 canes so what you want to do is you the first thing is you want to look at your rose and find any dead dying diseased wood you always want to use a pair of sectors that are clean and sterilized because roses do have diseases like black spot powdery mildew so you don't want to go from rows to rows spreading those diseases so you look at your base of your plant or you look at the overall plant you look at things like diseases or die back which there's a small cane there as you can see has some winter kill and four canes that also exhibit those kind of symptoms there's for example is a small lateral branch it's not going to do much so we just prune that away so i'm just gonna go through we only actually have one really good cane here like i said we have very very wet winter in vancouver i'm gonna get rid of the dead wood i'm going to pick my theoretically seven good canes and get rid of the rest and then from our canes what we want to do is we want to count seven buds up so for example this is what you'd call a bud here here's some emerging buds right in here so anytime you see sort of a little incision it looks like a little seam that's where a bud will come out not all the buds have come out on this rose yet so i'm looking for the different seams so i've got one two three four five six seven so i'm gonna maybe cut her back just a little bit harder in fact i'm gonna go to five just because this rose really needs a fighting chance on a really good vigorous rose you'd have stems up to here you'd have easily seven buds so you want to cut to the seventh the top of the seventh bud just above where your new leaves are going to emerge and that is how you prune a flora bunda rose typically you want to do it early spring at this level just before the leaves emerge and in ontario or in colder climates you would actually not hear you would actually mound up your roses with dirt as well in the fall and then you'd uncover them as part of your process of pruning and preparing your roses for the new flowering season my name is sanga lindsey hope you learned a little bit about floribunda roses if you want any more information on that edible gardens we keep bees please visit my website at www.sangadedesigns.com thanks for watching you