Bonita Springs, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bonita Springs, 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 Bonita Springs 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 Bonita Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bonita Springs — the short answer
Bonita Springs, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 25K 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
- 25K 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 Bonita Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bonita Springs'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 Bonita Springs
Each reading below is measured for Bonita Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBonita Springs 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 Bonita Springs is in
Bonita Springs sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Bonita Springs's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lee County is mostly Southern Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bonita Springs
Every plant below cleared Bonita Springs's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Bonita Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bonita Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STRONGS ENGINE MACHINE SHOP INCBrownfields · 300 ft
- ETURA CORPToxics Release Inventory · 350 ft
- FPL BONITA SPRINGS SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 600 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS #6505Brownfields · 1800 ft
- CIRCLE K #7312Brownfields · 2200 ft
- HOLE IN ONE FAIRWAYS LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- BONITA AUTO SALES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- LEE CNTY SCHOOL BD-BONITA SPRINGS MSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BONITA RENT ALL & SALES COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PALMER CABLEVISION OF SW FL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BONITA SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- 7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #32597Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bonita Springs'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 Bonita Springs.
Total Sites
602
within ~10 miles of Bonita Springs
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bonita Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bonita Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Bonita Springs
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 Bonita Springs average
Your land is one point inside Bonita Springs
Everything above resolves to Bonita Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 25K 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 Bonita Springs Average
Bonita Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Bonita Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Bonita Springs
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bonita Springs's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Bonita Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bonita Springs, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bonita Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bonita Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bonita Springs average
How we know this about Bonita Springs
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 Bonita Springs
Is it too late to plant in Bonita Springs?
No — Bonita Springs 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 Bonita Springs?
It doesn't — Bonita Springs 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 Bonita Springs?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Bonita Springs 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 Bonita Springs?
The federal record around Bonita Springs is a meaningful one — 602 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (274), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
Everything above is measured at Bonita Springs's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Bonita Springs'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 Bonita Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bonita Springs's own scale — the 24,593 acres it covers and 602 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bonita Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Bonita Springs — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 602 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bonita Springs, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bonita Springs's boundary and the 24,593 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Bonita Springs's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bonita Springs sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bonita Springs's 24,593 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lee County
- The growing challenges every Florida grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Florida
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bonita Springs's 24,593 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bonita Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 24,593 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Bonita Springs-wide figureread your own land →