Exbury Mandarin Lights Azalea Variegated deep rose-purple flowers cluster tightly

deep rose-purple flowers cluster tightly along bare branches in April and May

The cultivar is reliably hardy in USDA Zones 5b through 9

along with halictid bees

This cultivar holds the distinction of being the first truly dwarf red-bracted flowering dogwood ever developed

such as Forum are male and will not produce fruit

Exbury Mandarin Lights Azalea Variegated deep rose-purple flowers cluster tightlyFew 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