Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

2025

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City of Garden Ridge

Garden Ridge, TX

Lisa Swint

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of Garden Ridge is located in southern Comal County with a population just under 5,000 and a total area of 7.3 square miles. Located in Comal County and 12 miles south of New Braunfels, we pride ourselves in our tradition and history. Garden Ridge is known for its community and rural style -- where neighbors love helping neighbors. We strive to preserve the natural beauty of the landscape, making Garden Ridge "Naturally Home”. There are four pocket parks nestled within the neighborhoods in addition to the beautifully landscaped Paul Davis Park that provides pavilions, picnic tables, grills, playground equipment, a variety of sports fields, a brick garden, as well as a Butterfly Meadow. The Comal Master Gardeners also maintain a butterfly garden on City Hall grounds filled with foliage and flowers to attract butterflies and birds.

Community Spotlight

Garden Ridge City Hall

Each spring, City Hall is graced with a field of bluebonnets.

Garden of Garden Ridge

The Comal County Master Gardeners maintain the beautiful landscape and sitting areas around City Hall and the Library.

Paul Davis Park Entrance

Paul Davis Park is the signature park of the City of Garden Ridge where friends and families come together for celebrations and playtime throughout the year.

The Meadow at Paul Davis Park

The Meadow at Paul Davis Park was established in 2019 to attract butterflies and all pollinators.

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening ▸

Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.

Systems Change ▸

Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Lisa Swint	2025	2/11/2025	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Larry Thompson	2021	12/14/2020		View Pledge