Your role is to provide the Mum which is given to the date. And guess what? Girls (take note if you have a daughter who has been asked by a boy on a homecoming date) buy or make their dates a garter.

But Texans are known for making things bigger and better, as proved by the homecoming mum. The first reported sighting of a homecoming mum in Texas was in 1936 at a football game at Baylor University.