This summer, just down the road near Blountsville, you can visit ...
Bloom-N-Pie Days Good Getaways Story and photos by David Moore
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his year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Bloom-N-Pie Days, an annual plant sale put on by DeLois Dunn and her son and daughter-in-law, Clay and Heather Dunn. If you are an avid daylily gardener, you have probably met DeLois, who, at her home south of Blountsville on Skyball Road, keeps an official American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden, an outgrowth of loving daylilies since 1984. Thousands of varieties exist, and the society introduces new hybrids of daylilies annually. “You always see another daylily you need,” DeLois laughs. And they can be expensive; she and her sister, Kathy, have paid up to $200 for one. Harold Dunn sort of gets credit for Bloom-N-Pie Days. He said DeLois, a prolific grower of most anything that blooms, needed to start selling daylilies to support her habit of collecting new ones. Somehow fried pies, made primarily from their own orchards, seemed to compliment the idea, and in 2002 DeLois held her first Bloom-N-Pie Days flower sale at their farm. It took root and continues to draw hundreds of folks for a summer outing. Initially it was held the
Clay Dunn jokingly says he’ll restore the 1880s house at Vintage Gardens when he wins the lottery. Fried pies, above, are good enough that visitors stand in line for them. MAY | JUNE | JULY 2022
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