Michelia ‘Inspiration’ has an upright and dense growth habit, making it an ideal choice where space is limited. It has shiny, dark-green leaves and produces velvet-brown buds that opens to white, star-shaped flowers from early-spring over many weeks. The flowers have a delightful fragrance. It can grow in partly shaded areas and is frost tolerant. Correctly known as Magnolia ‘Inspiration’, but the incorrect name has been retained for consistency with the New Zealand market. An evergreen, not native to New Zealand, and a hybrid between Magnolia x foggii ‘Loving Memories’ and Magnolia laevifolia ‘Warm Fuzzies’. It was selected in 1996 by Barry Sligh at Taunton Gardens and Nursery in Lyttelton, New Zealand (PVR 30824 and Australian PBR 2016/252).