Magnolia – Fairy Magnolias

Fairy Magnolia® magnolias redefine what gardeners can expect from a magnolia. Compact, evergreen and wonderfully fragrant, they combine the timeless beauty of traditional magnolias with the practicality needed for today’s gardens and landscapes.

Naturally bushy and densely branched, Fairy Magnolia plants create a lush, year-round presence, making them ideal for hedging, screening, feature planting or large decorative containers. In spring, they become smothered in masses of exquisitely fragrant flowers, filling the garden with colour and perfume while attracting beneficial pollinators.

One of the greatest strengths of the Fairy Magnolia Series is its outstanding garden performance. Vigorous, reliable and easy to grow, these magnolias establish quickly and require very little ongoing maintenance. Their excellent natural resilience means there is generally little need for fungicides or pesticides, making them an environmentally conscious choice for both home gardens and professional landscapes.

Formerly known as Michelias, and highly regarded by landscapers and gardeners alike, Fairy Magnolia® plants are valued for their versatility, evergreen structure and dependable performance. Whether used to create a beautiful flowering hedge, provide year-round screening or stand alone as an elegant feature plant, they deliver lasting beauty with minimal effort.

Available in four enchanting colours, the Fairy Magnolia Series offers a magical combination of fragrance, performance and year-round appeal that sets it apart from traditional magnolias.

FLOWERS & FOLIAGE

Magnolia Fairy Magnolias® have a compact, bushy growth habit with medium dark green foliage. Flower buds open at virtually every leaf axil, each opening to fragrant blooms 6cm (2.5") across. They flower early to late spring with spot flowers year round.

PLANTING TIPS

These magnolias are happy growing in full sun through to part shade. They'll grow in any soil but do prefer well worked crumbling soils. Avoid heavy, waterlogged locations.

WAYS TO USE THEM

The Fairy Magnolia series of magnolias are ideal small specimen trees especially where a show-stopper is needed, but space is limited. And since they are naturally bushy, they also make fabulous flower-smothered hedges: to hide or mark a boundary.

SHAPE & SIZE

Magnolia Fairy Magnolias have an upright, bushy growth habit, maturing to form a tall bush or small tree 3-4m high, and 1½-2m wide. If spacing a row of plants to form a dense hedge, set them one metre apart. Trim top and sides to produce the hedge height and width you are looking for. EU zones 8-10

FOOD & WATER

These magnolias perform best when watered moderately over summer. They will handle drier conditions once established. In the garden, apply general fertiliser after the spring flower-show: in containers use a slow release fertiliser in spring & autumn.

PESTS & DISEASE

Magnolia Fairy Magnolias are an easy-care plant so they aren't usually susceptible to diseases but they can occasionally suffer minor leaf spotting if growing in crowded, low light conditions. No major issues with pests.

Fairy Magnolia Buds

Fairy Magnolia Blush

Fairy Magnolia Cream

Fairy Magnolia White

Fairy Magnolia Petite Peach

Quick to grow hedging

Landscaper tips

Magnolia Fairy Magnolias® can be planted to form a showy evergreen hedge
Space plants to create either dense cover or a loose screen
These magnolias grow well through part shade to full sun, useful where even growth is needed across a range of light conditions
The Fairy Magnolia series of magnolias establish easily and quickly
Maintenance is low where plants are left to grow naturally; clip annually post-flowering for a formal hedging or topiary effect
In confined spaces, they can be grown as a specimen tree with a significant floral show in spring
To create feature containers, plant these magnolias to form a spectacular canopy over a mixed understory of grasses, perennials and season annuals and bulbs

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