What Grows in Country Club, Florida

USDA Zones 11a · 3K acres

Country Club, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 11a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.

Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, starfruit, allspice, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.

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Even in Country Club, 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 Country Club lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.

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Country Club — the short answer

Country Club, Florida: USDA zone 11a, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 3K acres of town.

USDA zone
11a
USDA PHZM 2023
Killing freeze
None on record
NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
Town area
3K 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

11a11a
3a (Cold)13b (Hot)

Zone 11a is Country Club's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Country Club'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 Country Club

Each reading below is measured for Country Club itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.

Winter hardiness

Measured

Country Club sits in USDA hardiness zone 11a.

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 Country Club is in

Country Club sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Country Club's own centroid rather than borrowed from Miami-Dade County.

What that means for soil

What Grows in Country Club

Every plant below cleared Country Club's own zone 11a. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.

artichoke, photograph
Growing artichoke in FloridaZones 7–11Country Club's 11a — 4 zones of cold margin.
starfruit, photograph
Florida starfruit guideZones 10–12Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
allspice, photograph
Allspice in FloridaZones 10–12Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
cabbage, photograph
Cabbage: Florida growing notesZones 2–11Country Club's 11a — 9 zones of cold margin.
Meyer lemon, photograph
Growing meyer lemon in FloridaZones 9–11Country Club's 11a — 2 zones of cold margin.
ashwagandha, photograph
Florida ashwagandha guideZones 8–12Country Club's 11a — 3 zones of cold margin.
collard greens, photograph
Collard greens in FloridaZones 2–11Country Club's 11a — 9 zones of cold margin.
avocado, photograph
Avocado: Florida growing notesZones 9–11Country Club's 11a — 2 zones of cold margin.
cinnamon, photograph
Growing cinnamon in FloridaZones 10–12Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
kale, photograph
Florida kale guideZones 2–11Country Club's 11a — 9 zones of cold margin.
banana, photograph
Banana in FloridaZones 9–11Country Club's 11a — 2 zones of cold margin.
potato, photograph
Potato: Florida growing notesZones 2–11Country Club's 11a — 9 zones of cold margin.
cassava, photograph
Growing cassava in FloridaZones 8–12Country Club's 11a — 3 zones of cold margin.
eggplant, photograph
Florida eggplant guideZones 2–12Country Club's 11a — 9 zones of cold margin.
ginger, photograph
Ginger in FloridaZones 8–12Country Club's 11a — 3 zones of cold margin.
plumeria, photograph
Plumeria: Florida growing notesZones 10–12Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
begonia, photograph
Growing begonia in FloridaZones 10–11Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
Apache plume, photograph
Florida apache plume guideZones 5–11Country Club's 11a — 6 zones of cold margin.
black-eyed Susan vine, photograph
Black-eyed Susan vine in FloridaZones 10–11Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
lantana, photograph
Lantana: Florida growing notesZones 10–11Country Club's 11a — 1 zone of cold margin.
salvia, photograph
Growing salvia in FloridaZones 2–11Country Club's 11a — 9 zones of cold margin.
holly, photograph
Florida holly guideZones 5–11Country Club's 11a — 6 zones of cold margin.
bougainvillea, photograph
Bougainvillea in FloridaZones 9–11Country Club's 11a — 2 zones of cold margin.
mountain laurel, photograph
Mountain laurel: Florida growing notesZones 5–11Country Club's 11a — 6 zones of cold margin.
moringa, photograph
Growing moringa in FloridaZones 9–12Country Club's 11a — 2 zones of cold margin.
Vuda blue grass, photograph
Florida vuda blue grass guideZones 8–13Country Club's 11a — 3 zones of cold margin.
ajuga, photograph
Ajuga in FloridaZones 5–11Country Club's 11a — 6 zones of cold margin.
palo verde, photograph
Palo verde: Florida growing notesZones 8–11Country Club's 11a — 3 zones of cold margin.
cogon grass, photograph
Growing cogon grass in FloridaZones 8–13Country Club's 11a — 3 zones of cold margin.
liriope, photograph
Florida liriope guideZones 5–11Country Club's 11a — 6 zones of cold margin.

What's on the federal record near Country Club

Closest first, within ~10 miles of Country Club. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.

  1. M-DCPS AMERICAN SENIOR HSUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
  2. DADE COUNTY AMERICAN SR HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 400 ft
  3. MIAMI GARDENS U-GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
  4. CVS PHARMACY #3570Brownfields · 1000 ft
  5. SHELL M & P VISTA INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
  6. PICASSO CLEANERSBrownfields · 1600 ft
  7. NAVARRO DISCOUNT PHARMACY #10718Brownfields · 1800 ft
  8. NAVAL RESERVE READINESS CENTERBrownfields · 2400 ft
  9. MIAMI DADE WATER & SEWER PUMP STA #429Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
  10. MIAMI DADE WATER & SEWER PUMP STA #428Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
  11. MIAMI DADE WATER & SEWER PUMP STA #416Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
  12. 7-ELEVEN STORE #37250Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi

6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map

Measured from Country Club'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 Country Club.

Total Sites

4,109

within ~10 miles of Country Club

Risk Level

High

Highest-severity

53 Superfund sites

Severity Distribution

within ~10 miles of Country Club

High21Moderate1,309Low2,779

Highest-Severity Sites

Airco Plating CO.
Superfund · Superfund NPL
Anodyne, INC.
Superfund · Superfund NPL
B & B Tritech INC
Superfund · Superfund NPL
Continental Cleaners
Superfund · Superfund NPL

A note from Gnorman

What an experienced grower watches for around here

In and around Country Club, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 53 sites within ~10 miles of Country Club. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.

Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.

Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).

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Your land is one point inside Country Club

Everything above resolves to Country Club as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 town 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 Country Club Average

Country Club Average

  • USDA Zones 11a, averaged across Country Club
  • One soil character for all of Country Club
  • State-average frost dates

YOUR Parcel

  • Your exact zone, not Country Club's 11a
  • Your SSURGO soil type & pH
  • Your sun exposure, cast in 3D

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Three things about your lot that Country Club averages can't show:

Your soil pHYour frost-free daysYour sun & shade

We read public map data around Country Club — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.

25+ data sources read at your address, not the Country Club average

How we know this about Country Club

The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Country Club

Is it too late to plant in Country Club?

No — Country Club 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 Country Club?

It doesn't — Country Club 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 Country Club?

Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Country Club 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 Country Club?

The federal record around Country Club runs heavier than most — 4,109 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,774), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Country Club's scale — its 11a band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Country Club'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 Country Club’s own scale

6 of the readings below were taken at Country Club's own scale — the 2,674 acres it covers and 4,109 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.

Measured here

  • Country Club's own USDA hardiness band, zones 11aUSDA PHZM 2023
  • No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Country Club — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
  • 4,109 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Country Club, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
  • Country Club's boundary and the 2,674 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
  • Which of 1,086 plants clear Country Club's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
  • The ecoregion at Country Club's own centroid, the Southern Florida Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions

Inherited from a wider read

  • Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Country Club's 2,674 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Miami-Dade County
  • Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County

What this page can’t tell you

  • The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Country Club's 2,674 acreswhy one lot differs from the next
  • Which side of Country Club you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,674 acresreading your own microclimate
  • How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Country Club-wide figureread your own land
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