Shirley Degenhardt sits in her flower bed filled with mums on Hemlock Street in Great Bend Friday morning. For several years, Degenhardt would buy mums then plant them after the flowers’ season had waned. They survived and have taken over part of the front yard, exploding into an array of reds, golds and other fall colors each autumn. “I don’t buy them anymore,” she said.
Mums the word