2025 Availability

Welcome to Tee’s Plants, and thanks for checking out the 2025 availability list for my 2025 Garden Cultivar Sale! Here you’ll find some of the most special vegetable, herb, annual and perennial cultivars available around the world, here local to you. Tee’s Garden Cultivar Sale is anticipated to be available several days (to be announced) between May 17th and June 15th, 2025. Volume Pre-Ordering is available in February. Reservation will be temporarily available in early May, and I will deliver them to your address. Otherwise, come see me in late-May and see what I have for you to look at! Tee’s Plants has made numerous introductions for 2025, allowing for even more varieties to be introduced, including new vibrant colours! Availability and pricing fluctuates quickly and unpredictably, so be sure to reserve if it’s something you’re excited for. Enjoy your 2025, and I hope you find some plants that fascinate you at Tee’s Plants. See you in the Spring!

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Now Available: Tee’s Plants now offers custom volume planting, custom for you or your bee-concerned business. If interested, please contact order@teesplants.com with your inquiry, and we can discuss minimum quantity for your chosen varieties. Savings can be very significant when ordered ahead compared to regular seasonal rates! Some ideas for custom options Tee’s has accommodated:

• 48x F1 Big Duck Marigolds in all 3 colours
• 36x Red Tidal Wave Petunias to consume a large property front
• 100x Beacon Impatiens to surround a north facing balcony and patio (in 72 cell size)
• 24x Blue Fescue Grass for a rock garden
• 172x Super Hero Marigolds for a grower East of Chatham.
• 64x Rudbeckia Goldblitz as wedding gifts

Spring Onions – NEW FOR APRIL 2025

Scheduled for the 3rd week of April, high-quality onion seedlings will become available from Tee’s Plants. This is the optimal planting time in Chatham-Kent for these robust varieties. Tee’s onions are now sold in shallow pots, similarly sized to years previous but without the cells to allow for easier separation. To reserve a variety, or if you just generally require a lot, pre-ordering (order@teesplants.com) is highly recommended. Sets include 15-25 onions. Plant them the week you receive them to maximize the bulb size. Tee’s Plants offers the highest performing varieties around – good luck finding these at your other nurseries! Order your onions before the end of February, or risk not getting any!

Full Onion Sale Info: here!

Onion Cultivars for Spring 2025

• Parade: Green, Scallion $4/unit
• Apache: Red, Scallion $5/unit
• Redwing: Red, Large, Storage F1 $6/unit
• Whitewing: White, Large, Storage F1 $6/unit
• Patterson: Yellow, Large, Storage F1 $6/unit
• Creme Brulee: French Shallot, AAS Winner, F1 $7/unit
• More onion varieties are on the 2025 onion page: here!

Please note that some onions will also be available mid-May – early June for delayed and companion planting, which will still produce delicious, medium-sized onions in Chatham-Kent. As a matter of fact, I recommend planting onions at this time! Tee’s Plants ONLY offers “first-year” onion seedlings (NOT second year SETS) to maximize your success! There’s no need to worry about the variety’s required day length, since Tee’s only offers onion cultivars that excel at our latitude. Keep in mind! Onions sold out in 2024! Not only do onions store well, but they can save you some cash. 15 large white or red onions (just like the White Wing and Red Wing onions Tee’s offers) would run you a current estimated $37 at the grocery store. Plus, you don’t have to wait until the onions are fully grown. You can harvest and use them fresh at any time through the summer. Or, you can dry them a bit for storage late summer/early fall! (I do both!)

Full Onion Sale Info: here!

Pansies + Lettuce – APRIL to MAY

Scheduled for late April and the beginning of May (depending on the frost outlook and tolerance), spray-free pansies will be available at Tee’s Plants, offering you a head start to unique and impressive garden colour for 2025!

Thanks to your feedback from 2024, the pansy selection has been expanded to include more stunning varieties varieties like new Cool Wave and Matrix Pansies, offering you more unique and intense perennial colour that lasts – from the creators of the Wave petunia! Numerous colours, patterns, and growth habits will be available!

Prices for pansies vary depending on variety, ranging from $3 to $6 for starter sizes, and 10-12″ planters with 2-3 specially selected specimens will be available. Varieties include:

• Swiss Giants – Giant heirloom blooms – (Numerous, shades, and patterns) $3
  • Sold out!
• Sorbet XP – Tiny blooms – (Numerous colours, shades, and patterns) $4
  • Nearly sold out already!
• Matrix – Upright hybrid, neat foliage, largest pansy blooms $5
• Frizzle Sizzle – Fully ruffled pansy with some of the most showy blooms $5
• Cool Wave – Cascading Trail – (Numerous colours) $6
  • Nearly sold out already!
• Cats Plus White – Well look at those little whiskers on the white kitty! $5

Eazy Leaf Lettuce – Just like the store!

New for 2025, thanks to your feedback, I will offer fresh lettuce seedlings. They come in 6-cell containers, in addition to some larger 10-12″ arrangements. Prices start at $4 for a 6-cells of Rainbow Eazy Cut lettuce, a leading organic lettuce blend offering a true, colorful “cut-and-come-again” experience.

This new inclusion allows you to enjoy more of the cool season in the garden, and is a real simple way to enjoy fresh produce ahead of schedule. Eazy Leaf also resists bolting, and will perform better into June’s summer heat. You’ll despise the lettuce in the plastic containers when you grow your own! Top performing commercial leaf varieties like Eztron, Ezrilla, and more!

Main Season Plants – Late MAY to JUNE

Tomatoes – Hybrids and Heirlooms

Numerous types of tomatoes are available for the 2025 “Edible Garden”, with some new fun additions! Some cultivars will be in short supply to optimize efficiency vs popularity, while aiming to continue to offer a fun selection while minimizing excessive wastage!

Indeterminate = vine with spread out harvest | Determinate = bush with concentrated harvest

Tomato of the Year for the Edible Garden 2025

• Little Napoli: Tee’s Plants 2025 tomato of the year! This patio sized tomato will produce the cutest baby roma tomatoes. $5 NEW
  • Celebrate the “Edible Garden 2025” with this cute and edible novelty.
  • Small determinate plants that stay under 2 feet tall, with an easily manageable 3 foot sprawl. Roma tomatoes by July!?
  • Little baby harvests produce more than enough for a small early batch of sauce or salsa!
  • No garden? No problem. This variety is bred to thrive in smaller containers of about 12″ in diameter.

Typical Slicers

• Mountain Merit: A bushy, disease-resistant red beefsteak tomato, crowned as an AAS Winner and Tee’s Top Choice Award pick for $5. Best Beginner Tomato
  • Classic Beefsteak, Determinate, High disease resistance, #1 recommended container tomato with fruit 227-283g.
• Celebrity: This semi-bush red beefsteak tomato is an AAS Winner with consistent flavor and performance for $5.
  • Classic Beefsteak, Semi-Determinate, quite similar to Mountain Merit in many ways but with a more vigorous growth habit, and slightly smaller (198-283g) but very uniform tomatoes.
• Lemon Boy: A bright yellow, indeterminate tomato with tangy-sweet flavor and excellent disease resistance, perfect for adding color to your garden, available for $5.
  • Some regard this as a Low-Acid cultivar, with slicer sized fruit of about 170-225g.
• Early Girl: A classic, early-ripening indeterminate medium red tomato cherished across generations, available for $4. Back to the 70s!
  • Fantastic choice for quick medium (113-227g) slicing tomatoes!
• Better Boy: A reliable indeterminate large red tomato known for its big yields and classic taste for $4. Back to the 60s!
  • Similar to early girl, but larger fruit form (283-454g) after a bit more waiting.
• Black Krim: This indeterminate heirloom variety produces rich, flavorful large dark-purple tomatoes (227-343g) for $4. Commonly regarded as the most flavorful tomato.
  • Susceptible to disease, lower yields.
• Pink Brandywine: A vining potato-leaf heirloom with large, sweet pink-blush tomatoes for $4.
  • Susceptible to disease, lower yields. I recommend this only to gardeners familiar with outdoor tomato cultivation.
  • My largest tomato from 2024 was a Pink Brandywine, weighing 673g. Typically 340-907g.
• Supersteak: Producing award-winning, meaty, large red tomatoes, this indeterminate variety is a standout for $4.
  • Very large fruit 454-907g.
  • Has regularly been my largest tomato, excluding 2024!

Cherry Tomatoes

• Sungold: A gardener’s favorite, this indeterminate orange cherry tomato is bursting with sweetness for $5.
  • Crowd Favorite Cherry Tomato, Indeterminate, very productive
• Sweet Million: Prolific and delicious, this indeterminate red cherry tomato remains a gardener’s favorite for just $5.
  • Extremely vigorous red cherry tomato
• Bumble Bee: With stunning mosaic-patterned cherry tomatoes, this indeterminate variety is visually impressive for only $4. Pink, Purple, or Sunrise (random)
  • Artisan tomato look, vigorous plants.
  • One of the most appealing to look at!

Sauce / Roma Tomatoes

• San Marzano: An heirloom indeterminate roma tomato (113-141g) famous for its superior flavor in sauces for $4.
  • I usually sell out of this one very quickly.
• Optimax: A hybrid indeterminate roma tomato (170-283g) offering high yields and exceptional performance for $6.
  • This variety produces the most beautiful roma clusters you have ever seen.
  • For things like fresh salsa, this is the best hybrid. I’ve had this one alive and producing in November in Dresden, ON. Amazing disease resistance. If you’re a new gardener and want to try San Marzano, try Optimax instead and you will have amazing success.

Peppers

• Jalapeño M – $4
  • Scoville Heat Units: 2,500–8,000 SHU
    • A classic, moderately hot pepper, great for salsas and stuffing.
      
• Chile de Árbol – $4 Tee’s Top Choice Award
  • Scoville Heat Units: 15,000–30,000 SHU
    • Hotter than jalapeños, with a bright, smoky flavor; excellent for drying and making pepper flakes.
      
• Red Sweet Bell Peppers (King of the North, California Wonder) – $4
  • Scoville Heat Units: 0 SHU
    • Sweet and flavorful, with no heat, ideal for stuffing, salads, or raw snacks.
    • These are also the most common varieties for green peppers, just harvested a bit earlier.
      
• Habanero – $4
  • Scoville Heat Units: 100,000–350,000 SHU
    • Extremely hot but fruity, perfect for hot sauces and spicy dishes.
      
• Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) – $5
  • Scoville Heat Units: 800,000–1,041,427 SHU
    • Very, very hot with a slow-building burn; often used sparingly for extreme heat lovers.
      
• Sweet SnackX Peppers – $5
  • Scoville Heat Units: 0 SHU
    • Completely sweet, snack-sized peppers similar to mini bell peppers.
      
• Shishito – $5
  • Scoville Heat Units: 100–500 SHU (most are mild, but 1 in 10 can surprise with heat!)
    • A unique pepper that’s often blistered in a hot pan and served as an appetizer.

Cucumbers

Tee’s Plants offers a special selection of cucumbers beyond what other nurseries offer, like parthenocarpic varieties. Most of my cucumbers come in my larger 4″ pot size.

A Parthenocarpic cucumber is a type of cucumber that develops fruit without pollination, making it ideal for greenhouse or indoor growing where pollinators are limited. They also produce seedless fruit. Don’t let the price for these plants turn you down – the seed breeders know they’re worth it, and I promise they’re right. I have tested and approved these cucumber over years of testing.

Tyria $9 Tee’s Top Choice Award – Parthenocarpic, long English type cucumber. Top performer.

Piccolino $7 Tee’s Top Choice Award – Parthenocarpic, typical snack-sized cucumber with smooth skin.

Excelsior $6 Tee’s Top Choice Award – Parthenocarpic, this one will have you in a real pickle. Top choice for something like pickle spears, or giant pickles!

Artist Gherkin $5 – Parthenocarpic, “Baby Dill” type cucumbers that will easily fit into jars! NEW

Mini-Me $5 Tee’s Top Choice Award – Parthenocarpic, Finger sized cucumbers that are just a couple bites to eat. Impressive fruit set!

Tasty Green $4 – Typical garden cucumber, great flavor and vigor.

Patio Snacker $4 – Very compact cucumber variety with great all around utility. #1 choice for something like a 5 gallon pot. Won’t grow out of control like the others can.

Melons

Most of my melons come in my larger 4″ pot size. New for 2025: I now offer seedless varieties for the gardener looking for something new.

• Shiny Boy $5 AAS Winner
  • A very typical green striped hybrid watermelon that can produce fruit up to 20 pounds on vines reaching 12 feet.
• Jade Duchess Hybrid $5 NEW
  • Hybrid improved version of Sugar Baby, producing the smaller dark green watermelons.

Seedless watermelon cultivars require a pollinator variety nearby, which I will also give you. That’s why these are $10 each. Think of them as 2 plants, I suppose! 🙂

• Yellow Buttercup $10 Seedless NEW
  • Medium sized yellow watermelons with very sweet fruit.
• Favorite Ball $10 Seedless NEW
  • 12% brix, this is is a very strong melon with bright pink flesh. The rind pattern is almost cartoon looking.

Other Melons

• Tasty Bites Hybrid $4 NEW
  • An extremely sweet melon with brix of 15%, almost like baby 1 pound cantaloupes with pineapple flavor hints added in.
• Athena Cantaloupe $4 NEW
  • Very typical cantaloupe, with 12% average brix. Highly regarded farm variety reaching up to 7 pounds per fruit.
• Diplomat Honeydew $4 NEW
  • Hybrid green honeydew which will produce several fruits. Average sized 5-6 pound fruit.
• Cucamelon $4
  • Small baby melons that taste weirdly similar to a cucumber with maybe a bit of citrus.

Squash and Pumpkins

Squash and Pumpkin flowers are some of the favorites of many insects, like bumble bees! Plus, squash and pumpkins can be extremely productive. You will probably be giving away zucchini you’ll have so many – and that’s a good thing.

Squash

• Butternut $3
• Spaghetti $3
• Zucchini
  • Black Beauty $3 AAS Winner
    • Green Heirloom zucchini, very typical habit.
  • Desert $4
    • Upgrade on Black Beauty, this variety produces very uniform glossy fruit, much better than the grocery store.
  • Yellowfin $4
    • A yellow hybrid zucchini that produces similar fruits to Desert, but golden!
      • Yellow cultivars are very similar in taste to the green ones, but marginally sweeter and of course, yellow.
  • 8-Ball $4 AAS Winner
    • Typical green zucchini taste but in the shape of a ball!
  • One Ball $4
    • A yellow-balled zucchini!

Pumpkins

I always sell my pumpkin vines during a brief 2-week period in late May. There’s a pretty narrow window to plant pumpkin transplants before it gets too hot. I’m glad to be one of the only sources around for pumpkin plants! If you plant them when they become available, they will produce several pumpkins in time for Halloween!

• Neon F1 $4
  • Bright orange typical medium Jack o’ Lantern
  • Medium vine
• Dilly of a Jack $4
  • Large Jack o’ Lanterns with different shapes.
  • Large vine
• Atlantic Giant $4
  • The biggest you can grow, unreasonably so.
  • Large vine
• Half-Pint F1 $5
  • My favorite from 2024, the cutest carvable baby Jack o’ Lanterns
  • Short vine
  • I grew these out of large pots successfully, and I had several customers successfully grow their first pumpkin with this one.
• Jack Sprat F1 $5
  • Upgrade on the Sugar Pie heirloom pumpkin, get this one for pies. Or carving, too! It’s a great all around orange pumpkin, very popular!
  • Medium vine
• Baby Boo $4
  • Small tennis ball sized white pumpkins, very compact vine.
  • Medium vine
• Baby Jack $4
  • Small tennis ball sized orange pumpkins, very compact vine.
  • Short vine
• Icicle F1 $5
  • Brand new hybrid that produces small carvable white pumpkins.
  • Medium vine

Petunias

Petunias are pretty much #1 for things like hanging baskets. Tee’s Plants offers lots of petunias, like the common Wave Petunias, and more! Tee’s Plants has more colours of petunias than pretty much anyone! All for a very short time! NO growth regulators or other harmful sprays, unlike the others!

• Tidal Wave: Extreme Cascading 30-60″w x 16-22″h
  • Red $7 AAS Winner
  • Silver $7 AAS Winner
  • Purple $7
  • Cherry $7
• Wave: Low Crawler 36-48″w x 6-8″h
  • Purple $6 AAS Winner
  • Carmine Velour (Red) $6 AAS Winner
  • Misty Lilac $6
• Easy Wave: Compact Mounding 30-36″w x 6-12″h
  • Yellow $5 – NEW
  • Rosy Dawn $5 – NEW
  • White $5
  • Violet $5
  • Blue $5
  • Red $5
  • Pink Passion $5
  • Burgundy Star $5
  • Navy $5 – NEW
  • Burgundy $5
• Shock Wave: Small Flowered Mounding 24-30″w x 7-10″h
  • Purple Tie Dye $6
  • White $5 NEW IMRPOVED VERSION
  • Denim $5
  • Red $5
  • Deep Purple $5
  • Coral Crush $5
  • Pink $5
• Evening Scentsation:
  • One of the best blue petunias, bred for its unique scent. $6 AAS Winner
• FotoFinish: Dense, fast, and easy colour 12-18″w x 10-12″h NEW
  • Numerous colours, $4 (-$1 trial gardener discount)
  • This is a trial product for 2025. Help me test them out!
• Petchoa: Petunia x Calibrachoa – Interesting and vibrant colours achieved by crossing two popular annuals. New stunning varieties. Best for planters, instead of in-ground plantings.
  • Caliburst Yellow: $6 NEW
    • Very vibrant yellow!
  • Supercal: $5 NEW
    • Caramel
    • French Vanilla
    • Cinnamon

Marigolds (French Type)

All French Dwarf Marigolds are:
$4 each for 1-2x or
$3 each for 3x or more (25% off each)
for any French Dwarf combination. Not applicable to African types.

• Super Hero: Hybrid French Dwarf
  Industry standard, vigorous marigold series with lots of interesting colour options. 8″w x 8″h
  • Deep Orange $4
  • Deep Yellow $4
  • Gold $4
  • Harmony $4
  • Orange $4
  • Orange Bee $4
  • Orange Flame $4
  • Yellow Bee $4
  • Spry $4 AAS Winner
• Bonanza: Hybrid French Dwarf
  AAS Winner 1999, large fiery blooms on sturdy plants. Largest flowers in this class!
  • Bolero $4
• Safari: Hybrid French Dwarf
  Similar to Super Hero but taller with larger anemone type blooms 9″w x 9″h
  • Bolero $4
  • Gold $4
  • Orange $4
  • Red $4
  • Scarlet $4
  • Tangerine $4
  • Yellow $4
  • Yellow Fire $4
• Disco: Hybrid French Dwarf
  FOTB approved, these disc shaped flowers with single-petaled blooms accommodate for your bee buddies to provide easier access to pollen. 9″w x 9″h
  • Yellow $4
  • Orange $4
  • Red $4
  • Granada $4
  • Marietta $4
• Fireball: Hybrid French Dwarf $4
  Dwarf French marigold that has dark red petals that fade to orange as each flower matures.
• Strawberry Blonde: Hybrid French Dwarf $4 NEW
  Similar to Fireball, but more pastel vibes. New and unique!

African Marigolds and More – $5 each

All African Marigolds are:
$5 each for 1-2x or,
$4 each for 3x or more. (Save 20% each)
For any African Marigold or Gem type combination. French Types excluded.

My African Marigolds come in larger pots than my smaller French types to allow for their vigorous growth, bringing you greater success than the competition can! You’ll be impressed when you see the difference with my marigolds that haven’t been sprayed with any growth regulators! There’s a reason marigolds are my #1 seller every year!

• Antigua: Hybrid African Super-Dwarf Marigold, 10-12″w x 10-12″h
  *Small plants, huge blooms, cute accents*
  • Gold: $5
  • Orange: $5
  • Yellow $5
  • Primrose $5
• Inca II: Hybrid African Dwarf Marigold, 12-14″w x 12-14″h
  *Great all purpose bedding option with added primrose colour, top choice for big impact in smaller spaces*
  • Primrose: $5
  • Yellow: $5
  • Gold: $5
  • Deep Orange: $5
• Marvel II: Hybrid African Dwarf Marigold, 10-12″w x 16-18″h
  *Great industry standard with that reliably produce large blooms, plants stand up to high winds and other adverse weather conditions, taller on average than Inca II*
  • Gold: $5
  • Orange: $5
  • Yellow: $5
• Big Duck: Hybrid African Dwarf Marigold,, 9-13″w x 12-15″h
  *AAS Winner Marigold, standalone beauty, very heat tolerant, Tee’s Classic*
  • Orange: $5

• Citrus Gems: Fragrant Ornamental Marigold 12-14″w x 12-14″h
  Very uncommon nursery find, these are a classic for Tee’s Plants! High novelty value. Unique citrus scent with petite single star-like blooms.
  • Orange Gem: $5
  • Lemon Gem: $5

Assorted Annuals

• Alyssum:
  • Triple Blend $4 of White, Purple, Pink NEW
• Coleus:
  • Chocolate Drippy – $4
  • Premium SUN SERIES – $5 each type, several available, including:
    • Watermelon SUN
    • Ruby SUN
    • Coral Candy SUN AAS Winner
    • Chocolate Covered SUN
  • Premium SHADE SERIES – $5 each type, several available, including:
    • Lime Sprite
    • Empire
    • Rose
    • Scarlett
• Celosia
  • Fresh Look AAS Winner
    • Orange, Red, Yellow, Burgundy, Gold
• Sweet Potato Vine
  • Lovely Purple $4
  • Elegant Green $4
• Impatiens: Imara XDR $4 $3 each (-$1 trial gardener discount)
  • Orange or White
    • This is a trial for 2025. Give them a shot!
• Impatiens: Beacon $4 each or $3 for 3 or more.
  • Full assortment: Red, Purple, Pink, White, Orange, Salmon, Coral
  • Purchasing a Beacon helps support medical research for rare conditions globally.
  • NEW 2025 colours included!

• Impatiens: New Guinea
  • Solarscape: A brand new interspecific type, these impatiens are bred to withstand the sun! $8 each. Height averages around 1 foot tall, with XL varieties being an inch or two taller. 12-14″ spread!
    • Pink Jewel XL AAS Winner NEW
    • White Shimmer NEW
    • Orange Bliss NEW
  • Blush Pink Apple blossom
    • $5 each
• Eucalyptus:
  • Silver Dollar $6
  • Heart Leaf Silver $6
• Sunflowers:
  Large sunflowers tend to transplant poorly, but these don’t!
  • Suntastic $5 AAS Winner NEW – The best dwarf hybrid sunflower which will bloom with up to 20 flowers per plant through the summer. Stays under 12″. Amazing in containers. Pollenless
  • Big Smile $3 NEW – Since Suntastic was so good, Big Smile had to be trialed. Growing up to 2 feet tall, this dwarf branching sunflower will do great in containers, or in the ground. Big Smile will even produce a bloom if you don’t transplant it out of the container and keep it watered! Pollen-producing
  • Seeds $free – Tee’s Plants and the Friends of the Bees have seeds for you – just ask! Lots of varieties are included in my sunflower blend which is free for 2025 customers.
• Tithonia (Mexican Sunflowers)
  • Mexican Torch $4 AAS Winner
    • Annuals with vibrant orange bloom up to 6 feet tall which are highly attractive to bees, birds, and butterflies.
  • Fiesta Del Sol $5 AAS Winner
    • Similar to Mexican Torch, but this one has more bedding and accent value with a height nearing only 3 feet tall.
• Zinnia: Florist Premium
  These are amazing for cutting, and for bees and butterflies!
  • Queeny Lime Orange $6 AAS Winner
    Queeny Lime Red $6
  • Red Profusion $6 AAS Winner
    • Single bloom flowers provide the optimal landing pad for larger butterflies.
    • One of the most red annuals you can grow.

🌿Herbs🌿

$4 each or $16 for 5 (buy 4 get 1 free)

• Basil: Dolce Fresca $4
  • Award winning basil for your garden. Typical Genovese flavor on especially neat and compact plants. Resists bolting superbly. AAS Winner
• Basil: Bonsai $4 NEW
  • New and impressive, check out the full size basil flavor on these small plants staying under a foot tall. How cute! Greek basil foliage type.
• Basil: Everleaf Lemon $4 NEW
  • A new lemon basil that flowers quite late, giving you more of what you’re after.
• Chives: Original $4
  • My #1 recommended herb, since it comes back year after year for free without any effort, really.
• Oregano: Greek $4
  • If you’re looking for a typical oregano, this is the one you want.
• Oregano: Zaatar $4
  • Zaatar is richly scented and spicy including hints of oregano, thyme and marjoram. Everyone who tastes it buys it. Super fascinating herb!
• Rosemary: RosyPro $4 NEW
  • Hybrid rosemary with great fragrance and growth habit. Superb culinary utility, beautiful plants.
• Thyme: Original $4
  • Super easy perennial herb with classic thyme aromatics. Highly recommended!
• Lavenders – Bees love both of these varieties and they’re both perennial in our zone.
  • Dwarf Munstead $4
    • Regarded as one of the most fragrant lavenders around. Get this one for the scent.
  • Ellagance Purple $4
    • Breeding focuses on flower appearance and color. Get this one for the visuals, more showy than Dwarf Munstead.
• Lemon Grass $4
  • Increasingly common as both a culinary herb, and a defensive plant against mosquitoes!

🐝Pollinator Flowers🦋

To simplify things, many varieties will be labelled as either perennials or annuals.

• Annuals – are more than likely going to last one season and then die after the first frost and not return the next year. They can however spread seeds which may germinate into new plants the next Spring.
• Perennials – Can last through the winter for many years, sometimes perpetually. They can also spread seeds and some will reliably divide from the root zone. Many will return without much attention.

If you want more birds, you need more caterpillars. To get more caterpillars, you need more butterflies. For more butterflies, you need more flowers, and for more flowers, you need more bees. It becomes obvious when you achieve this, and it can happen quickly. Someone has to do it.

– an old Friend of the Bees, 2023

🦋Milkweed (Asclepias)🦋

• Milkweed – $3 each, all of these milkweed are perennial here in Chatham-Kent. Use some of these to attract egg bearing monarchs!
  • Common – is a favorite among monarch butterflies for laying their eggs. Good general choice.
  • Swamp – thrives in wetter soils and is a magnet for pollinators, including the monarch butterfly. This one is my favorite. Can flower 1st year.
  • Showy – lives up to its name with large, pink blooms that bees adore. Less desired by monarchs.
  • Butterfly – adds a vibrant pop of orange to gardens while attracting a variety of butterflies. Can flower 1st year.

🦋Rudbeckia🐝

Rudbeckias are a must-have for the home owner looking to diversify their garden. Perennial types serve as excellent “lazy” options, and ones like Goldblitz are dependable to return for years, offering impressive colour without needing to re-purchase and plant annually. Featuring NEW annual types showing off unique flower characteristics! Most won’t start to flower until at least July, so please select with your imagination in full operation!

• Perennial Rudbeckias
  • Goldsturm $4 – A great classic perennial option.
  • Goldblitz $5 – New improved type of Goldsturm, with more but smaller diameter blooms. This is my favorite!
  • Cappuccino $4 – An interesting variety with smooth transition of bold darker tones.
  • Black Eyed Susan $3 (seeds from Canadian Wildlife Federation) – Recommended variety for attracting bees, butterflies, birds, and more! FOTB approved!
    • Think of Goldsturm and Goldblitz as Black Eyed Susans but bred for your eyes instead of the pollen for the bees. They’re still appropriate for your pollinators too though, so don’t be discouraged!
      
• Annual Rudbeckias
  • Maya Double $4 – Fascinating and unique double petaled rudbeckia.
  • Chocolate Orange $4 – As its name implies, it’s a beautifully toned flower that will welcome pollinators to your garden.
    
    Note: even though these are technically annual, they will more than likely self-seed and provide you with volunteer flowers next Spring or Summer. The perennial types will do the same. They’re not noxious weeds at all and are very easy to control if you are concerned about that possibility.

🐝Other Pollinator Flowers🦋

• Echinacea (Cone Flowers) – These are regarded as some of the best flowers for butterflies.
  • Purple Coneflower $4
    • Top choice for pollinators, Friends of the Bees approved!
  • Pow Wow Wildberry $6 AAS Winner
    • A heavily improved version of the typical Purple Coneflower, Wildberry will maintain very vivid colours in the heat without fading like the typical purple coneflower.
  • Cheyenne Spirit $6 AAS Winner
    • Best multi-colored series. Rich purple, pink, red and orange tones to lighter yellows, creams, and white. Be surprised with what you get!
      
• Lavender – Bees love both of these varieties and they’re both perennial in our zone.
  • Dwarf Munstead $4
    • Regarded as one of the most fragrant lavenders around. Get this one for the scent.
  • Ellagance Purple $4
    • Breeding focuses on flower appearance and color. Get this one for the visuals, more showy than Dwarf Munstead.
      
• Liatris: Blazing Star $4
  • Purple, perennial in CK.
  • Use this one to attract monarchs towards your milkweed.
    
• Tithonia (Mexican Sunflowers)
  • Mexican Torch $4 AAS Winner
    • Annuals up to 6 feet tall which are highly attractive to bees, birds, and butterflies.
  • Fiesta Del Sol $5 AAS Winner
    • Similar to Mexican Torch, but this one has more bedding and accent value with a height nearing only 3 feet tall.

Friends of the Bees Select Variety Pack Deal – 4x perennials for $10.

Adding all 4 of these perennials to your property is an excellent way to create an attractive pit stop for your pollinator buddies.

1x Liatris Blazing Star for your garden friends like butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, predatory wasps, beetles, hoverflies, goldfinches, with drought tolerance, poor soil tolerance, deer resistance, and rabbit resistance.

1x Black Eyed Susan for butterflies, bees, hoverflies, predatory wasps, goldfinches, drought tolerance, with poor soil tolerance, deer resistance, and rabbit resistance

1x Common Milkweed for Monarch butterflies, bees, hummingbirds, beetles, hoverflies, predatory wasps, aphids, drought tolerance, poor soil tolerance, deer resistance

1x Purple Coneflower for butterflies, bees, hoverflies, predatory wasps, goldfinches, drought tolerance, with poor soil tolerance, deer resistance, and rabbit resistance

for $15 $10.

Dresden Town Yard Sale – JUNE 14th

Sunflowers Free (limited supply, please accommodate for others too!)
– Discounted Plants (To be announced)

Notice: many photos on this page are credited to the seed breeders and retailers.