Exbury Mandarin Lights Azalea Disease Resistant extending the plant's ornamental contribution

extending the plant's ornamental contribution well past the spring bloom window

Introduced in 2021 by Proven Winners ColorChoice Shrubs

This cultivar reaches 40 to 50 feet tall with a 30-foot spread

Too much fertilizer or high quality soil will result in the plants becoming leggy and not retaining their symmetrical shape

In woodland settings

Exbury Mandarin Lights Azalea Disease Resistant extending the plant's ornamental contributionFew spring blooming shrubs deliver color with the uninhibited intensity that 'Mandarin Lights' brings to the northern garden. The flowers ruffled, tubular, and blazing in true mandarin orange with reddish overtones arrive in April and May in full clusters of up to 12 blooms per truss, erupting from bare stems well before the foliage emerges. That naked stem flowering moment is one of the most dramatic effects a deciduous azalea can produce, the vivid