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 3.

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. 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.

With the Golden Lights, gorgeous azaleas are now available for colder climates.