Bill Text: TX HCR93 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Concurrent Resolution 93

Bill Title: Designating Nacogdoches as the official Garden Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Passed) 2025-05-28 - Signed by the Governor [HCR93 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HCR93-Enrolled.html



	H.C.R. No. 93



	HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, The Lone Star State is renowned for the beauty and
	diversity of its many public gardens and parks and for the
	dedication its residents have demonstrated to preserving and
	sustaining these oases of greenery; and
	WHEREAS, While outstanding gardens can be found in many
	communities throughout the state, the city of Nacogdoches has
	distinguished itself for the number and variety of its green and
	flowering public spaces; and
	WHEREAS, Nacogdoches is located on a site once occupied by
	members of the Nacogdoche tribe, a group of the Caddo people whose
	culture was based on farming; a Spanish mission was established
	there in 1716, and the town has been a civil settlement since 1779;
	as early as 1853, the city's gardens were noted in the diary of a
	famous visitor, Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who
	later designed New York's Central Park and numerous other iconic
	public spaces around the nation; and
	WHEREAS, Today, Nacogdoches helps to preserve the state's
	horticultural heritage through re-creations of traditional gardens
	at the Durst-Taylor Historic House and Gardens, the Sterne-Hoya
	House Museum and Library, Millard's Crossing Historic Village, and
	the Old Nacogdoches University Building; and
	WHEREAS, The city's splendid green spaces also include
	Eugenia Sterne Park, Margil Park, Zion Hill Baptist Church
	Cemetery, Oak Grove Cemetery, and the Pocket Park and the Plaza
	Principal in the historic downtown; moreover, Liberty Memorial
	Garden commemorates with dignity and grace the lives lost during
	the tragic events of 9/11; and
	WHEREAS, Nacogdoches is home to Stephen F. Austin State
	University, which is landscaped with overstory and ornamental trees
	to maintain the Pineywoods ecosystem and the natural beauty of the
	campus; the university's 138 acres of gardens include the SFA Mast
	Arboretum, the Pineywoods Native Plant Center, the Gayla Mize
	Garden, the Jim and Beth Kingham Children's Garden, the Plantery,
	and Jimmy Hinds Park; in addition, the Baldcypress Collection and
	the Crape Myrtle Collection are renowned for their impressive
	display of those species; each year, SFA Gardens hosts programs
	that provide information on sustainable gardening and the
	preservation of native plants, while the Nacogdoches Independent
	School District supports initiatives that encourage students to
	maintain and study gardens on the grounds of their schools; and
	WHEREAS, Home of the annual Nacogdoches Azalea Trail each
	March, the community was the first to be recognized as part of the
	Azalea Society of America's Azalea City Program in 2004 and was
	recertified in 2012; the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden on the SFA
	campus is the largest such garden in the state, with more than 7,000
	evergreen and native azaleas on display; another of the city's
	notable sites is the Nacogdoches County Master Gardeners
	Demonstration Garden on the former site of Aqua Vitae Park, which
	was developed by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in
	cooperation with the city and Nacogdoches County; and
	WHEREAS, The thoughtful cultivation of the splendor of nature
	is one of the most sublime expressions of the human spirit, and the
	skill and devotion with which the city of Nacogdoches has showcased
	its lovely trees and flowering plants is indeed deserving of
	special recognition; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas
	hereby designate Nacogdoches as the official Garden Capital of
	Texas; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That, in accordance with the provisions of
	Section 391.003(e), Government Code, this designation remain in
	effect until the 10th anniversary of the date this resolution is
	finally passed by the legislature.

	Shofner


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	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.C.R. No. 93 was adopted by the House on May
	1, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 5 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.C.R. No. 93 was adopted by the Senate on May
	14, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

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	Governor