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Thanks for visiting Tee’s Plants! Tee’s Plants is an award winning novelty plant hobby grower serving Southwestern Ontario, now growing in Chatham-Kent, offering individual and volume sales of unique and staple edible plants, as well as an impressive collection of new and classic ornamental plants like petunias and impatiens. Tee’s Plants operates a few public tent/yard plant sales on certain days each year to share plants with bee and butterfly friendly gardeners like yourself!
What makes these plants different? They’re timed and grown naturally to be enjoyed at home, and to look best for the bulk of the season. I don’t use common tricks like growth regulators to make things artificially nice ahead of time. I really want you to have a fun time with some cool plants, and they’re timed for great results! Take pride in knowing that your plants were grown with love as part of a carefully planned operation that prioritizes health, and wellness for all!
I challenge you to grow something you can’t find at the giant nursery this year. From flowers to vegetables, there’s something unique here for you. Let me introduce you to a customer favorite: the Gem Marigold. It’s a unique marigold with bright tiny flowers, but it smells like fresh citrus fruit when brushed against! Stunning in plantings, bouquets, and culinary applications! Offered in several unique shades, along with more than 35 other classic, new, novel, and popular marigold varieties each year! I’m sure you’ll find something special about my marigolds, they are my specialty.
2026 Novelties from Tee’s Plants
- #1 Local Wave Petunia, Hybrid Pansy/Viola, Beacon Impatiens, and Premium Hybrid Marigold selection! No Sprays, No Worries!
- #1 Domestic and Local perennial grower! From start to finish, trust you’ll get awesome results when you grow perennials raised without common tricks like bloom forcing!
- NEW bouquet selection! Be your own designer with florist recommended varieties of zinnias, celosia, marigolds, sunflowers, and more! Give one of the award winning “Queeny Lime” zinnias a try, available in several of the best shades!
- Numerous award winning flower and vegetable cultivars, like the Celebrity F1 Beefsteak tomato! It’s one of the most disease resistant tomatoes available on the market, and is capable of resisting the high pest and disease pressure in our area. It is one of the highest rated tomatoes for the gardener because of its flavor profile, garden vigor, pest/disease resistance, and yields!
- Premium herbs like Orange Thyme, Za’atar Oregano, or Emerald Tower basil, which delays flowering for up to 3 months longer than other varieties, and reaches up to 3 feet tall!
- Showy and fun options like sun coleus, sweet potato vine, premium grasses, and more!
- Functional ornamental plants like lemon grass, eucalyptus, lavender, echinacea, and more!
- Localized bee, butterfly, and bird annual/perennial selections, with award winning cultivars of plants like tithonia, milkweed, salvia, rudbeckia, liatris, coneflower, and more!
- Plants for easy educational fun like min-sunflowers, baby pumpkins, butterfly beans, and more!
Tee’s Garden Theme for 2026 is Disco Inferno
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Tee’s 2026 Favorites and Novel Mentions
- Profusion Zinnia: Tee’s Plants landscape flower of the year! This patio sized zinnia cultivar will produce the most colorful blooms you’ve ever seen seen! It comes in several different flavors, like this award winning “Red Yellow Bicolour” variant, which recently won an AAS award.
- Profusion Zinnias aren’t as susceptible to the same disease and pest pressure as other zinnias, like Japanese beetles and powdery mildew!
- Compact plants keep their blooms tight with great resistance to adverse weather, deadheading is not required
- Maintains intense colour even with our local heat and humidity
- Other colours in the series have won various industry awards too, like the beautiful red variant, which was very popular for 2025!
- No garden? No problem! This variety is bred to thrive in containers of about 12″ in diameter and larger, and would be beautiful on your patio or porch
- Mango Tango: Tee’s marigold of the year! Mango Tango has won several notable awards recently, because it boasts a special, intense pattern that’s sure to catch eyes!
- The bicolour tone offers impressive contrast, which looks amazing by itself and as a companion plant
- Colour doesn’t shift like some other cultivars, this pattern remains stable the entire season.
- Very large, semi-double anemone flowers have a very small central crest, and full petals. Larger blooms than my popular Superheroes.
- Emerald Tower Basil: Tee’s herb of the year! This beautiful basil is topping the lists of many gardeners with good reason! Its flowering is delayed up to 8 weeks longer than similar varieties, and it reaches between 2 and 3 feet tall! Grow this one to show and smell, and especially use for cooking! It features the classic Genovese leaf, smell, and taste! Yum!
- It has a columnar, “tower” like formfactor, unlike the short bushy varieties like my popular “Dolce Fresca” and “Bonsai” basil.
- The yields off of one transplant can be very impressive! Emerald Tower is probably the absolute best variety to grow as a transplant in your garden.
- When it eventually does flower, bees love it!
Check out the learning with plants page to find some fun, yet affordable garden projects for kids. From mini-potted sunflowers to monarch butterfly keeping, there’s something new to try every year for all ages.
Mason Bees + Tee’s Plants
Check out my baby mason bees! I maintain a small population of mason bees in Dresden, Ontario for fun. In the early spring, you can see how fast these pollinator buddies zoom around the thousands of flowers available to them in the area. They’re a testament to my safe growing methods, and they’re very cute. There’s a near 100% chance that one of my bee pals visits your flowers before you purchase! No pesticides for these bees!
Tee’s Plants grows pumpkin plants for you to succeed in-time for Halloween!
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From The Friends of the Bees: Favorite Annuals for 2025
Repost from fotb.ca: The Friends of the Bees have selected interesting annuals we recommend you try for the year of 2025! Consider trying these varieties which provide both stunning looks, and help assist your pollinator friends. Growers celebrating with the Friends of the Bees will often offer FOTB annuals of the year for you to
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Tee’s Plants is Cancelling American varieties
As tensions around trade policies continue to rise, the future of cross-border seed sourcing has become increasingly uncertain. Recent developments suggest that tariffs on American agricultural products, including seeds, may increase significantly, making them less viable for small growers like us. In response, Tee’s Plants will be phasing out all American seed varieties by 2026
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How to Build Cheap Flower Baskets and Planters (2025)
Hanging baskets are a beautiful part of the summer. Whether they’re hanging in your city’s downtown or over your porch, they always deliver a punch of colour. They’re also quite expensive to buy in-season, especially when they’re purchased from somewhere convenient like a grocery store. These days, seeing prices of up to $75+ per planter
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Testimonials and Reviews
Here are some of my favorite reviews and messages I’ve received, posted with the permission of the kind gardeners like you! If you’d like to submit a review or pictures, please email order@teesplants.com!
That’s actually the only time I’ve had impatiens last that long, and never had that colour before. They didn’t get the most sun either, they grew like newguineas! Just love and fertilizer!
– Dresden Gardener
You grew that coleus last year and those were a favorite. Lots of people asked about them! They grew very well in the pots under the shade of the big walnut trees. Nothing ever does!
– Dresden Gardener
There are like 12 monarch caterpillars between all 3 of the milkweed. Had no idea it was actually that simple lol! Thanks for that, he loves butterflies. Is this the best kind for monarchs or other butterflies?
– Chatham Gardener
No one ever has the marigolds you do. Maybe 3 colours if I’m lucky. I got the 6-pack from the store too but they didn’t catch up by Canada Day to yours. More big ones, and red ones please!
– Wallaceburg Gardener
The giant pansies are my favorite favorite favorite. I have not seen those in years. So different too. Some smell, some don’t. Seems like purple smells best?
– Croton Gardener
Tidal wave petunias literally look just like the pictures online. I planted them the same as I did as when I replanted the planter but there are literally 2-3 feet more of petunias on each side. I do fertilize ever 2 weeks though as it’s recommended. I actually don’t commonly see the running petunias outside of proven winners, whenever I do find wave petunias they are not these.
– Tupperville Gardener
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