Gardens are a good way to describe this heavily wooded area in northeast Houston. It’s a shade cooler in the Gardens because thousands of mature trees mean lower air conditioning bills and more comfortable back yards. Mostly residential in character, there are $25 million in new roads and overpasses, a new library, and a new community center.

Trinity/Houston Gardens is a fairly large community. It covers 6.9 square miles and contains diverse, but mostly well maintained, tree-lined neighborhoods. According to the Houston Planning and Development Department website, the community takes its name from two neighborhoods – Trinity Gardens and Houston Gardens. The names of these neighborhoods originated from the fact that when the community was first developed, the lot sizes were large enough for residents to cultivate gardens on them. Residential density is still low, for the most part, and development is primarily single-family. The community consists of a mixture of brick façade homes and more modest wood frame homes. There are several garden apartment complexes in the community, as well. Small grocery markets, fast food outlets, and motels represent most of the Trinity/Houston Gardens commercial and retail development. Industrial businesses prevail on the eastern edge of the community in proximity to railroad tracks. There are a number of horse lots in Trinity/Houston Gardens.