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'Genista 'Porlock'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/genista/genista-porlock/). Accessed 2024-04-24.

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Glossary

hybrid
Plant originating from the cross-fertilisation of genetically distinct individuals (e.g. two species or two subspecies).

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'Genista 'Porlock'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/genista/genista-porlock/). Accessed 2024-04-24.

Genista 'Porlock'

Genista 'Porlock' is a spectacularly free-flowering plant, rather hardier than older opinions suggest, but still requiring full sun in a warm site (private garden, Maidenhead, Berkshire, May 2021). Image John Grimshaw.

A hybrid between Genista monspessulana and G. × spachiana, formerly treated under Cytisus (Bean 1976).

USDA Hardiness Zone 8-9

RHS Hardiness Rating H3

Awards AGM

A beautiful and very floriferous hybrid raised by N. G. Hadden of Porlock. A specimen was received by Kew from Mr Hadden in 1922 and nine years later it received an Award of Merit when shown at the Chelsea Show, May 1931. It bears fragrant flowers in April and May and, though rather tender, grows quickly into a large shrub. (Bean 1976).

Genista 'Porlock'

Genista 'Porlock' in flower at RHS Garden Rosemoor, Devon, UK, 22 April 2017. Image John Anderson.

Genista 'Porlock'

Genista 'Porlock'. Fairweather Garden, Hampshire, UK. 5 August 2007. Image John Anderson.

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