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The Azalea Golden Lights, Azalea 'Golden Lights', has rich and fragrant golden yellow flowers with showy bronze red fall foliage that is simply gorgeous! It is one of the renowned Northern Lights series of very cold hardy Azaleas bred in Minnesota. It was designed in order to bring this glorious warm climate shrub all the way through zone 4. The flowers open from bright golden buds into orange blooms, each about an inch wide and held in huge clusters. It blooms a bit later in spring than most Azaleas, extending the Azalea show by a week or so. This hard to find shade of golden orange Azalea is a very lovely big, well proportioned shrub grows 6 feet high and 5 feet wide. Plant in acid soil in filtered sunlight or light shade, although plants tolerate full sun in cool summer areas. Mulch well and avoid disturbing its roots which remain very near the surface, fertilize twice a year with an acidic mixture, and water well throughout the growth period. Never prune after mid summer because those branches produce the next season's flowers.
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