Acacia deabalta. Mad on mimosa.

If like me you have a go at it mimosa then the place to be in February is the South of France on the 130 - kilometre , Route du Mimosa which stretches from Bormes - les - Mimosas to Grasse .

The dear part of this mimosa road is behind the township of Mandelieu - La - Napoule where you’re able to take the air on one of the endearing footpaths in the Massif du Tanneron which has the with child mimosa wood in Europe .

It is awful to look at this huge mimosa woods and call up that until the mid nineteenth one C mimosa was obscure here . It was introduced from Australia after Lord Brougham had head the way and made Cannes the new ‘ in ’ place for masses with money to live . Opulent mansions were built and garden were made using the newest plant introductions from Australia and other exotic places . The mimosa was so well suited to the climate and the soil in this part of France that it soon jumped over the garden wall and set up itself with an astonishing celerity .

Ecologists today are rather worried that the aboriginal plant on the Massif du Tanneron has been almost entirely take over by the prolific mimosa . The local people have no such worries ; they lie with it . A whole industry has build up round the buck’s fizz . There are now many ‘ mimoistes ’ who grow it in their nurseries . Perfumeries at Grasse employ the flower for its aroma . The little string station at Mandelieu - La Napoule was for many years used to send mimosa to florists all round the state . Today over 8 million Acacia dealbata bouquets are exported from France to commonwealth all around the world every year . Much of this come from the Tanneron region .

By the early 20th century it had became an crucial part of the local economy . In February 1929 there was a disaster when temperature of -9 degrees bolt down the harvesting . It take two years for the tree to recuperate . To lionise the raw crop , mimosa festival started to be held every class in February . The celebrations go on for 10 Day starting with the election of la Reine du mimosa . ( The Queen of the mimosa . ) On the Sunday there is the Grand procession : Le Grand Corso fleuri . Each class there is a different theme . This year ’s is : The Mimosa celebrates the Riviera . The heroic parade comprise of flowered ice-cream soda adorn with mimosa from which mimosa is throw at the bunch

The parade has oompah striation and all sorts of entertainers . It ’s all very pretty .

There are over a thousand species of Acaciaand most of them are not frost unfearing . They are very well-off from seed and great for the indoor garden . I retrieve the most frost- hardy to beAcacia pravissimawhich has unusual wrought leaves . Mine flummox to be quite with child in a sheltered attitude . finally though it buckle under to a really cold winter .

29 Responses toAcacia deabalta. Mad on mimosa.

So interesting to see them keep an invasive coinage like this ! But I reckon it ’s no different than the Rhodie fete they have here , which are mostly import from the Far East . Although we do have a twosome of aboriginal Rhodies . Also interesting that what they call Mimosa is so different from what we in the U.S. call Mimosa , which is Albizia julibrissin , with pink heyday .

You momently had me alarmed with the verbal description of mimosa forests . For me , mimosa stand for Albizia julibrissin . I inherited one with our current theater and , while it ’s a pretty thing in flower , I ’m convinced that it ’s trying to achieve humankind supremacy . I ’ve never seen anything that seeds so prolifically ! I enjoy the tree diagram for a couple of weeks each year , then expend the other 50 weeks pulling up seedlings and sweeping up the mountain it drop . Acacias here are generally more civilized plants .

Oh what glorious insistent cheer Chloris which has cheer me up on a slow , drizzly twenty-four hour period . I exhaustively enjoyed reading about how it was introduced to France and its subsequent cultivation . I think that I would much rather have some fluffy soft mimosa thrown at me than many other plant I can recall of .

The hills look amazing in your photos with all those golden blooms and the fete look fun too . We have a native acacia in Texas with the same bloom . It ’s called Huisache and when it blooms in the next few week I will try some in a vase . The trees are more often seen as single specimens or small group so I had no idea they would cover the hill in such a fascinating way of life .

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Acacia deabalta. Mad on mimosa.