What Grows in Pine Manor, Florida

USDA Zones 10b · 296 acres

Pine Manor, 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.

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

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Pine Manor — the short answer

Pine Manor, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 296 acres of town.

USDA zone
10b
USDA PHZM 2023
Killing freeze
None on record
NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
Town area
296 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

10b10b
3a (Cold)13b (Hot)

Zone 10b is Pine Manor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Manor'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 Pine Manor

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

Winter hardiness

Measured

Pine Manor 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 Pine Manor is in

Pine Manor sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pine Manor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lee County.

What that means for soil

What Grows in Pine Manor

Every plant below cleared Pine Manor's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.

artichoke, photograph
Growing artichoke in FloridaZones 7–11Pine Manor's 10b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Meyer lemon, photograph
Florida meyer lemon guideZones 9–11Pine Manor's 10b — 1 zone of cold margin.
California poppy, photograph
California poppy in FloridaZones 6–10Pine Manor's 10b — 4 zones of cold margin.
cabbage, photograph
Cabbage: Florida growing notesZones 2–11Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
avocado, photograph
Growing avocado in FloridaZones 9–11Pine Manor's 10b — 1 zone of cold margin.
rosemary, photograph
Florida rosemary guideZones 8–10Pine Manor's 10b — 2 zones of cold margin.
collard greens, photograph
Collard greens in FloridaZones 2–11Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
banana, photograph
Banana: Florida growing notesZones 9–11Pine Manor's 10b — 1 zone of cold margin.
ashwagandha, photograph
Growing ashwagandha in FloridaZones 8–12Pine Manor's 10b — 2 zones of cold margin.
kale, photograph
Florida kale guideZones 2–11Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
citrus, photograph
Citrus in FloridaZones 9–11Pine Manor's 10b — 1 zone of cold margin.
potato, photograph
Potato: Florida growing notesZones 2–11Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
garlic, photograph
Growing garlic in FloridaZones 2–10Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
cassava, photograph
Florida cassava guideZones 8–12Pine Manor's 10b — 2 zones of cold margin.
eggplant, photograph
Eggplant in FloridaZones 2–12Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
lantana, photograph
Lantana: Florida growing notesZones 10–11Pine Manor's 10b is its exact cold limit.
begonia, photograph
Growing begonia in FloridaZones 10–11Pine Manor's 10b is its exact cold limit.
Apache plume, photograph
Florida apache plume guideZones 5–11Pine Manor's 10b — 5 zones of cold margin.
black-eyed Susan vine, photograph
Black-eyed Susan vine in FloridaZones 10–11Pine Manor's 10b is its exact cold limit.
plumeria, photograph
Plumeria: Florida growing notesZones 10–12Pine Manor's 10b is its exact cold limit.
salvia, photograph
Growing salvia in FloridaZones 2–11Pine Manor's 10b — 8 zones of cold margin.
holly, photograph
Florida holly guideZones 5–11Pine Manor's 10b — 5 zones of cold margin.
bougainvillea, photograph
Bougainvillea in FloridaZones 9–11Pine Manor's 10b — 1 zone of cold margin.
mountain laurel, photograph
Mountain laurel: Florida growing notesZones 5–11Pine Manor's 10b — 5 zones of cold margin.
moringa, photograph
Growing moringa in FloridaZones 9–12Pine Manor's 10b — 1 zone of cold margin.
Vuda blue grass, photograph
Florida vuda blue grass guideZones 8–13Pine Manor's 10b — 2 zones of cold margin.
ajuga, photograph
Ajuga in FloridaZones 5–11Pine Manor's 10b — 5 zones of cold margin.
palo verde, photograph
Palo verde: Florida growing notesZones 8–11Pine Manor's 10b — 2 zones of cold margin.
cogon grass, photograph
Growing cogon grass in FloridaZones 8–13Pine Manor's 10b — 2 zones of cold margin.
liriope, photograph
Florida liriope guideZones 5–11Pine Manor's 10b — 5 zones of cold margin.

What's on the federal record near Pine Manor

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

  1. INTERSTATE BRANDS COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
  2. FREEDOM SCREENING CORPBrownfields · 1700 ft
  3. U-HAUL CENTER #786-077Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
  4. 7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #34153Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
  5. ALL - FLORIDA TOWINGBrownfields · 1900 ft
  6. VALERO-CLEVELANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
  7. PAMS MOTOR CITY AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 2100 ft
  8. J & C AUTO CLINIC & BODY REPAIRBrownfields · 2100 ft
  9. HAVERTY FURNITURE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
  10. FOWLER CO GEORGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
  11. JAMES GRAHAMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
  12. GALLOWAY LINCOLNBrownfields · 2100 ft

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

Measured from Pine Manor'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 Pine Manor.

Total Sites

1,821

within ~10 miles of Pine Manor

Risk Level

Elevated

Highest-severity

1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)

Severity Distribution

within ~10 miles of Pine Manor

High1Moderate398Low1,422

Highest-Severity Sites

Lee County Utilities
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
7 Eleven Store #35537
Underground Storage Tanks · Open UST(S)
7-Eleven Food Store #24394
Underground Storage Tanks · Open UST(S)
7-Eleven Food Store #24542
Underground Storage Tanks · Open UST(S)
7-Eleven Food Store #25668
Underground Storage Tanks · Open UST(S)

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.
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Your land is one point inside Pine Manor

Everything above resolves to Pine Manor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 296 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 Pine Manor Average

Pine Manor Average

  • USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Pine Manor
  • One soil character for all of Pine Manor
  • State-average frost dates

YOUR Parcel

  • Your exact zone, not Pine Manor's 10b
  • Your SSURGO soil type & pH
  • Your sun exposure, cast in 3D

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

25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Manor average

How we know this about Pine Manor

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 Pine Manor

Is it too late to plant in Pine Manor?

No — Pine Manor 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 Pine Manor?

It doesn't — Pine Manor 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 Pine Manor?

Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Pine Manor 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 Pine Manor?

The federal record around Pine Manor is a meaningful one — 1,821 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (865), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Pine Manor's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Manor'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 Pine Manor’s own scale

6 of the readings below were taken at Pine Manor's own scale — the 296 acres it covers and 1,821 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.

Measured here

  • Pine Manor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
  • No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Pine Manor — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
  • 1,821 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Manor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
  • Pine Manor's boundary and the 296 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
  • Which of 1,086 plants clear Pine Manor's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
  • The ecoregion at Pine Manor's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions

Inherited from a wider read

  • Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pine Manor's 296 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 Pine Manor's 296 acreswhy one lot differs from the next
  • Which side of Pine Manor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 296 acresreading your own microclimate
  • How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles 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 Pine Manor-wide figureread your own land
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