How Do You Prune Lemon Light Azaleas?
The lemon lights azalea is a deciduous azalea that shimmers with light yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers when well tended. Prune lemon Llights only after flowering, but don’t neglect the practice of renovation pruning for the best health of this flowering shrub. This azalea from the northern lights group can blossom as far north as zone 4 and live for up to forty years. Deadhead the blossoms and give the annual tidy-up pruning and your rhododendron lemon lights will give you bundles of gorgeous blossoms each spring. Pluck the dead blossoms from the lemon lights azalea when they are finished blooming by bending the stem until it snaps. This will stimulate new growth and is especially important with smaller, younger shrubs. When plant becomes very large, this is not necessary or practical because there may be too many blooms. Remove all blossoms on the shrub by deadheading if plant suffers bud blast caused by a fungus or frost. Pinch the tips of the growing stem to promote bushiness in the
