Essentials to live in Hungary

Yes I put the most recent in before the frost. I will get a lot more just before next winter and put them in the fridge as you suggest. I would really like to find a good plant nursery in hungary though. The few things I have seen are expensive.

anns wrote:

Yes I put the most recent in before the frost. I will get a lot more just before next winter and put them in the fridge as you suggest. I would really like to find a good plant nursery in hungary though. The few things I have seen are expensive.

Get them from the UK.  They are not an invasive species and they survive well with transport. 

Speaking of which, the one you need to watch out for is Japanese knotweed. It would be a disaster if that arrived in HU but it might die in the cold (one would hope).  Truly horrendous.

I think the bulbs have to be in the fridge for up 3 weeks (if you miss the cold).  You can always just leave them outside in colder weather. 

Don't mix up your bulbs with the onions. Daffs etc are highly toxic.

I'm currently looking for a very hardy bamboo to make a plant based screen to get some privacy from my neighbours.  There are bamboos that can cope with -20C but pricey.  I had a pampas grass (forget what you hear about them) but I've never managed to keep it alive. Every one of them (3 so far) has died in the winter.

Sorry for. Being a plant nerd but there is a green bamboo growing wild very near me . We have planted a little in the garden. Also when I visited friends in zala it was growing tall and strong everywhere and their neighbour was using it to make fencing .
Mallow, butterfly bushes aka  buddlia  and Jerusalem artichoke  all grow quickly and can make a good screen as can willow.

anns wrote:

Sorry for. Being a plant nerd but there is a green bamboo growing wild very near me . We have planted a little in the garden. Also when I visited friends in zala it was growing tall and strong everywhere and their neighbour was using it to make fencing .
Mallow, butterfly bushes aka  buddlia  and Jerusalem artichoke  all grow quickly and can make a good screen as can willow.

Our Buddleia  (HU: pilangobokor - butterfly bush indeed) died. My Jerusalem artichokes are doing well but they don't screen all year and they haven't grown high enough.  Not too bad to eat either in small quantities but also known as Fartichokes.  We put in some sunflowers (Poundland) and they were only about 4ft high.  Obviously if I'd gone to TwoPoundLand it would have been better

Interested to learn about that bamboo. I wonder what variety it is? I want to plant it as a screen and as part of a collection of all year leafy bushes or plants with substantial stems.

Willow I had not thought about but I wouldn't want it to get too big. 

Leylandii is a possibility but that's quite invasive, uses a lot of water and could get out of control.

Cute, it seems true by reading all the remarks, the British DO love their gardens.
I personally like the HU potatoes but then again what I find when in the US are generally horrible GMO  potatoes.
Been to many shops and tried all sorts and non taste as good as those we get in HU.
Idaho potatoes are suppose to be good, so far every bag I have bought in the US this holiday have brown spots, soggy and just seem to fall apart.
Bought a small bag of organic yellow skin ones, those were ok but not worth the cost or hassle of looking for.
Brown rice time  maybe? Could do without eating potatoes but cook because everyone seems to like them.
Interesting that people want to grow potatoes, I don't know much at all about gardens( city girl or desert rat living) but I thought they were easy to grow.
My in-laws in HU used to grow everything under the sun except potatoes, thought they took up allot of space to grow and were buggy.
In the future if anyone has extra homegrown UK style potatoes to sell it might be interesting to try them out.

Marilyn Tassy wrote:

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In the future if anyone has extra homegrown UK style potatoes to sell it might be interesting to try them out.

You can actually grow them in pots if you are careful enough.  One of the nicest potatoes is the Russet.  According to Wikipedia, this is known in the USA as something like the Burbank potato and is the one that Idaho is referring to as a "famous potato".

Nothing new to the average Hungarian knowing they may or may not be spied on.
Little  black book and all..
My son here in Vegas swears there are drones flying in the neighborhood, saw them two times near his window.
Not sure if they are a hobby drone or something else.
Lived on a remote hill overlooking the ocean in Hilo ( don't even ask why on earth we moved away, must of been insane) a few times a black chopper would fly near over the property, we rented a house with 40 acres of land from a local Hawaiian man.
There would be several men dressed in black wearing swat clothing coming down on ropes, not sure if they used the property for training exercises or they wanted to see if anyone was up to no good using the land for growing you know what.

I have planted firethorn as a hedge it's about a metre tall now but it will take quite a few years to grow full sized . It can have red , orange or yellow berries and can be shaped or left to straggle.
It was in the local garden centre and dotted about in other people's gardens. Gives a bit of colour too, birds love it.

Not noticed any men in black spying on me yet. If they do they may get their eyes poked out in the summer when I have nudists visiting .