Teas Nursery Company

Teas Nursery Company traces its history to 1843, when John C. Teas (1827-1907) began selling apples out of his back yard in Indiana. After moving the business to Missouri in 1868, Teas became a nationally prominent horticulturist. In 1908 his son, horticulturist Edward Teas, Sr. (1870-1951), met developer W. W. Baldwin who was then planning the community of Westmoreland Farms and the town of Bellaire in southwest Harris County. Baldwin hired Teas to execute the planting designs for Bellaire Boulevard and adjacent streets. Teas started work in Bellaire early in 1909. The next year, he moved his family from Missouri to this site and opened Teas Nursery Company. Initially specializing in the sale of fruit trees and flowering shrubs and plants, the business was later expanded to include landscaping services. The company's early projects included the landscaping of Rice Institute (now Rice University) and the River Oaks subdivision. By 1951 Teas Nursery had planted over one million trees in the Houston area. Edward Teas died the same year, leaving ownership of the nursery to his descendants. (1993)

Teas Nursery Company is a historical marker in Houston, Harris County, dedicated in 1993. It is one of 422 historical markers documented in Harris County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 849 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 29.7062, -95.4504 near Houston. The nearest cataloged historic site is Texan Capture of Mexican Dispatchers (historical marker), about 0.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include West University Place, City of, Bellaire Presbyterian Church, and Bellaire Streetcar Line.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5201010788. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.