Add fiery color and evergreen beauty to your landscape with Rhododendron ‘Golden Gate’, a compact flowering shrub prized for its vibrant orange and red blooms. Blooming in mid-season, this eye-catching rhododendron produces brilliant flower trusses that bring warmth and bold contrast to woodland gardens, borders, and shaded landscape beds.

Its compact mature size makes it an excellent choice for smaller gardens, foundation plantings, decorative containers, and colorful accent plantings. Hardy and easy to maintain, ‘Golden Gate’ provides year-round evergreen structure along with a stunning seasonal floral display. You will receive a healthy field-grown plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:

• 1 live Rhododendron ‘Golden Gate’ shrub
• Size: approximately 12–15 inches wide
• Healthy, rooted field-grown plant
• Orange and red flowering evergreen shrub
• Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Golden Gate Rhododendron
• Botanical Name: Rhododendron ‘Golden Gate’
• Plant Type: Evergreen flowering shrub
• Growth Stage: Established field-grown plant
• Sun Requirements: Morning sun with afternoon shade
• Soil: Acidic, moist, well-draining soil
• Watering: Moderate; keep soil evenly moist
• Mature Height: Approximately 3 feet
• Mature Width: 3–4 feet
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• USDA Zones: 6–8
• Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip

Apply mulch annually to help maintain cool roots and retain soil moisture. Light pruning after flowering helps maintain its compact shape and encourages dense healthy growth.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.