Broadly compact evergreen shrub to 1m tall, with dark green leaves and in spring, red buds open to broadly funnel-shaped, wavy-edged flowers, light orange-yellow inside and reddish-orange outside with some red spotting at the edges and outside, borne in rounded trusses
0.5-1 metres
1-1.5 metres
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This cultivar is best grown in light dappled shade, in a site sheltered from cold, dry winds and late frosts, in moist but well-drained, humus-rich, acidic soil, preferably between pH4.5 and pH5.5; for more advice, see rhododendron cultivation
Propagate by heeled semi-ripe cuttings in late summer, by layering in autumn, or by grafting in late winter or late summer
Pruning group 1 (little or no pruning of trees and shrubs) or pruning group 8 (early-flowering evergreen shrubs)
May be susceptible to vine weevil, rhododendron and azalea whitefly, rhododendron leafhopper, pieris lacebug, scale insects, caterpillars and aphids
May be susceptible to various Rhododendron diseases including powdery mildews, rhododendron petal blight, rhododendron bud blast, silver leaf and honey fungus