Dead Headin'

Contrary to initial belief, Dead Heading has nothing to do with a certain musical group, or in fact any music at all.

My Grandma has over 300 different varieties of day lilies. Day lilies are a variety of lily where the blooms last only one day. Each plant has several stems (scapes) and each scape has about 20 blooms. So you get quite a few flowers to admire over the course of June and July.

Today is the local garden show. Last night, after our fourth of July bbq on the third, several of us went up to Grandma's to pick all of the blooms and past blooms off of the day lily plants. This is so that Grandma's garden is as pretty as possible for all of the visitors that are coming by today. Grandpa helped too. He even moved his tractor to the back of the yard (instead of its place of prominence in front of the garage.)

The picture is some of the hundreds of blooms we picked off of the plants.