Timberwood Park, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include okra, black-eyed pea, tomato, and jalapeno, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Timberwood Park, 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 Timberwood Park 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 Timberwood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Timberwood Park — the short answer
Timberwood Park, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 306 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 6
- Bexar County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Bexar County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~306
- Bexar County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 13K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Bexar County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Timberwood Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Timberwood Park's 306-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Timberwood Park
Each reading below is measured for Timberwood Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTimberwood Park runs about 306 days between hard freezes (read from Bexar County, the closest normal to Timberwood Park) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTimberwood Park sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Timberwood Park is in
Timberwood Park sits in the Edwards Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Timberwood Park's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Bexar County is mostly Texas Blackland Prairies. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Timberwood Park
Plants matched to Timberwood Park's USDA zones 8b, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Timberwood Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around Timberwood Park
Survey cells within 31 miles of Timberwood Park checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 664 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Timberwood Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Timberwood Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CANYON GOLF MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CARRY ONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- GENERAL RENT-A-CARUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- LEES QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CARRYONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE 36527Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- HENSHAW BROS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- TETCO STORE 310Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- SPECHT RD RMToxics Release Inventory · 2.4 mi
- NOONERS 9Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- R J MONAHAN HELICOPTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- BIGS 206Underground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Timberwood Park'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 Timberwood Park.
Total Sites
305
within ~10 miles of Timberwood Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Timberwood Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Timberwood Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Timberwood Park, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 122 sites within ~10 miles of Timberwood Park. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Timberwood Park
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 Timberwood Park average
Your land is one point inside Timberwood Park
Everything above resolves to Timberwood Park as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 13K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bexar County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Timberwood Park Average
Timberwood Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Timberwood Park
- ●One soil character for all of Timberwood Park
- ●Frost dates read at Timberwood Park's scale: Feb 6 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Timberwood Park's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Timberwood Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Timberwood Park, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Timberwood Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Timberwood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Timberwood Park average
How we know this about Timberwood Park
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 at Bexar County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Timberwood Park
When does frost risk typically end in Timberwood Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Timberwood Park typically lands around Feb 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 27.
When is the first frost in Timberwood Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Timberwood Park typically arrives around Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 25, so the watching starts about Nov 9 — about 306 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Timberwood Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Timberwood Park sees about 306 frost-free days — roughly Feb 6 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 27 to Nov 25, about 271 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Timberwood Park?
The federal record around Timberwood Park is a meaningful one — 305 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (123), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Timberwood Park?
From about Nov 9 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Timberwood Park's scale — its 8b band and its 306-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Timberwood Park'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 Timberwood Park’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Timberwood Park's own scale — the 13,041 acres it covers and 305 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Timberwood Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 305 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Timberwood Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Timberwood Park's boundary and the 13,041 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Timberwood Park sits in the Edwards Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Timberwood Park checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Timberwood Park has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bexar County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Timberwood Park's 13,041 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bexar County
- The candidate plant list — Texas's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Texas
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bexar County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Bexar County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Timberwood Park's 13,041 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Timberwood Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,041 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Timberwood Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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