Meet the Owners

After many years as growers in the nursery business in Texas and living in the Mexican tropics, Marian and Jimmy Cates have opened The Bellflower in Bellville, Texas, as their take on a fully faceted garden center experience. 

Influenced and instructed by the pioneer native plantsman Lyn Lowery and highly regarded Texas grower Joe Tocquigny - along with their observations made while living in a tropical climate - Marian and Jimmy bring a practical approach to gardening informed by years of experience. 

Marian and Jimmy have been married for 46 years and share four children, seven grandchildren and one (so far) great-grandchild.