May 1: lily of the valley ever greener in the Pays de la Loire

2023-04-30 12:14:20

Once again in the Nantes valley, as in the whole of the Pays de la Loire which produces 80% of French lily of the valley, the magic has worked. The flower with the little white bells is here, right on time for May 1st. “It was a somewhat complicated year,” says Patrick Verron, production manager at Bigot Fleurs in Allonnes (Sarthe). A cool month of April, without sun, with a drying east wind. As a result, the flower had all the difficulty in the world to appear.