global warming has precipitated its harvest in the Pyrénées-Orientales

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The mimosa is making a comeback and the harvest is starting with a bang for a producer looking for the perfect branch. Mimosas flower several weeks early, partly due to drought and climate change. A harvest as early as last year’s, but which promises to be better. “The harvest looks good, it arrives suddenly. The fact that it rained, the mimosa is prettier. It has regrown because it suffered from the drought”, assures David Cazes, mimosa producer in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales).

In Banyuls-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales), the little yellow flower seduces in the image of a customer who could not resist temptation. “Mimosa before Christmas, it’s great”she says. Customers won over and a great first for a flower producer who is launching into the mimosa harvest. “It’s the first for me. I’ve never harvested a mimosa and I’m learning. It’s a fairly physical harvest and it will last almost the entire month. It’s a field that belongs to my in-laws and they pass on their way of doing things to me a little too”confides Jeanne Traon, organic flower producer in Thuir (Pyrénées-Orientales). Each year, between 10 and 20 tonnes of mimosa are harvested in Vallespir.