HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you're looking for a simple homecoming mum, then you're out of luck. These days, there's no such thing. While some of the traditional ones include the flower as a center ...

Homecoming season has arrived in Texas, and students are once again going all out for the traditional homecoming mums! Everything is bigger in Texas — including homecoming decorations and traditions.

Homecoming mums have been a Texas tradition since at least the 1970s, and it appears that the mums get bigger every year. Last year in Dickinson, one mum reached a height of 28 feet while another in ...

With the start of the school year comes the return of extravagant homecoming decorations and traditions. But one North Texas mom decided to shake things up by starting a new trend: homecoming mums — ...

In the heart of Texas, a tradition blossomed, one that encompasses the essence of the Lone Star State, where everything is, indeed, bigger. What started as a simple token of affection from a teen boy ...

Wearing the creations to high school homecoming games has become a competition itself, with the once-simple corsage growing larger each year Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

Apparently, homecoming mums are the word in Louisiana and Texas. If you or your child has ever gone to homecoming, you may have seen, or perhaps even received, a homecoming mum. Mums were originally ...

Everything is bigger in Texas! Including the traditions. Mums, short for chrysanthemums, are a long-held homecoming tradition that has grown bigger since the first one was seen at Baylor University in ...

The tradition of homecoming mums originated in Missouri, which also hosted the first-ever homecoming football game in 1911, according to Texas Highways. But Texans are known for making things bigger ...