Bellflower, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bellflower, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Bellflower lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Bellflower — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bellflower — the short answer
Bellflower, California: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- City area
- 4K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. The year-round finding is measured — a 30-year record with no 28°F killing freeze in it — never inferred from missing dates.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10b is Bellflower's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bellflower's no killing freeze on record, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bellflower
Each reading below is measured for Bellflower itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBellflower sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Bellflower is in
Bellflower sits in the Southern California/Northern Baja Coast — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Bellflower's own centroid rather than borrowed from Los Angeles County.
What Grows in Bellflower
Every plant below cleared Bellflower's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Bellflower
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bellflower. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 25 ft
- BELLFLOWER - SOMERSET MWCPFAS · 25 ft
- ALDI INCBrownfields · 300 ft
- BELLFLOWER LAWNMOWER SHOPBrownfields · 600 ft
- BELLFLOWER CLEANERSBrownfields · 600 ft
- TRUE VALUE CLEANING SERVICES (TVCS) INC DBA PLAZA CLEANERSBrownfields · 650 ft
- RITE AID #5508Brownfields · 700 ft
- WESTERN DENTAL SERVICES INCBrownfields · 750 ft
- RICK BROWNBrownfields · 800 ft
- TT & T OIL COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- TT AND T OIL COBrownfields · 850 ft
- SMART & FINAL #311Brownfields · 900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bellflower's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Bellflower.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bellflower
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bellflower
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bellflower, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 15,618 sites within ~10 miles of Bellflower. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Bellflower
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bellflower average
Your land is one point inside Bellflower
Everything above resolves to Bellflower as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Bellflower Average
Bellflower Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Bellflower
- ●One soil character for all of Bellflower
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bellflower's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bellflower
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bellflower, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bellflower averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bellflower — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bellflower average
How we know this about Bellflower
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals, with the labelled statewide window where none resolves; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Bellflower
Is it too late to plant in Bellflower?
No — Bellflower has no 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record, so the growing season is year-round and there is no last-frost date to wait for. Planting is paced by rainfall, heat and daylength instead of by frost: start heat-lovers any month, and time cool-season crops (lettuce, brassicas, peas) for the cooler, wetter half of the year or for higher ground. Succession sowing every few weeks works all year, so the limit is what you can keep watered and harvested, not the calendar.
When does frost risk typically end in Bellflower?
It doesn't — Bellflower records no 28°F killing freeze at all across the 1991–2020 station record, so there is no spring frost date to plant after. Cold still matters with elevation: the higher you garden, the cooler the nights, and a few tropical crops sulk below about 60°F even where they never freeze.
How long is the growing season in Bellflower?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Bellflower contains no 28°F killing freeze, so there is no season to measure between freezes. What paces planting instead is heat, rainfall and daylength: the hottest, wettest stretch is the hard part for cool-season crops, not winter. Elevation is the one real exception — the higher you garden, the colder the nights get.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bellflower?
The federal record around Bellflower runs heavier than most — 18,107 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (15,618), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
Everything above is measured at Bellflower's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Bellflower's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Bellflower’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bellflower's own scale — the 3,915 acres it covers and 18,107 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bellflower's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Bellflower — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 18,107 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bellflower, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bellflower's boundary and the 3,915 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Bellflower's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bellflower's own centroid, the Southern California/Northern Baja CoastUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bellflower's 3,915 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Los Angeles County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Los Angeles County
- The growing challenges every California grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom California
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Los Angeles County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bellflower's 3,915 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bellflower you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,915 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Bellflower-wide figureread your own land →
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