A Michelia hybrid, bred in New Zealand by Mark Jury, with beautiful lightly fragrant flowers blushed lilac pink and evergreen dark green foliage. It is ideal as a specimen shrub or as a hedge.

Michelia is a historical genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Magnoliaceae. The genus included about 50 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, native to tropical and subtropical south and southeast Asia (Indomalaya), including southern China. Today it is regarded as a synonym and section of the genus Magnolia. [1]

Magnolia laevifolia, still often known as Michelia yunnanensis or Magnolia dianica, is one of the very best of the michelias for widespread garden use, thriving in milder parts of North America and in maritime Europe, especially the British Isles, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Fairy Magnolia® White Magnolia is a new hybrid Michelia bred to produce masses of beautiful fragrant white flowers in early spring and have been known to provide a light flush of flowers during summer, too. The plants are bushy with rich evergreen foliage, which makes them ideal in the garden as a flowering hedge or specimen plant.

A group of versatile, easy to prune trees and shrubs, Michelia are now known as Magnolias. Michelia are a group of mainly evergreen trees from China, through to Vietnam, The Philippines and India. Linnaeus named them after the Italian botanist, Pietro Antonio Micheli.

Magnolia grandiflora “Little Gem” is a tough plant with exceptionally dark forest green leaves contrasting with cinnamon indumentum and is much favoured in modern gardens. Just be aware that it is only a little gem as opposed to an extremely giant gem.

Michelias are spring flowering trees (like most magnolias) whose flowers are white, cream or yellow and scented beyond belief. On a still day you can smell M. doltsopa in the gardens from 100 yards away. Michelias will (slowly) propagate from summer new growth cuttings but those are best taken from young plants rather than old ones.

One of the better known and longer cultivated species of Section Michelia, Magnolia doltsopa is quite typical of them in being a large, evergreen forest tree, bearing its highly fragrant white flowers in leaf axils, high in the canopy.

Michelia are evergreen shrubs and trees grown for their fruity fragrant, magnolia-like creamy or yellowish-white flowers and lustrous dark green leaves. Michelia is a subtropical plant that blooms on and off throughout the year.

Magnolia laevifolia, formerly Michelia yunnanensis, ‘Warm Fuzzies’ has dark green glossy leaves with velvety brown indumentum and fuzzy brown buds that open to creamy white blooms with a sweet, alluring, citrusy fragrance.