Lower garden

I like that you take seasonal pictures. I'm doing the same this year. It really helps to know when the plants change.

Today is October 1...and I've begun bringing things in. Do you have a lot of Autumn colour in Hungary?

Yes.In my garden I have 3 maples, 2 Rhus sumach and Parthenocissus that all go through wonderful shades of orange and red. In the countryside most local trees seem to go a nice buttery yellow, such as sycamores, False Acacias, Poplars and various others. A lot of the hedgerows have nice red berries at the moment too. The trees are just starting to change but the best is yet to come.

I sounds interestingly like where I garden...are the winters severe...or moderate?

We can get a severe winter with -20C in day but more normal to get a few weeks when it can be -10. Sometimes we get a mild winter when frosts are not hard, but usually we get a mix with a few spells of hard frosts, snow etc with spells of mildr weather in between. It's a continental climate. Zone 6.

Sounds like a more moderate version of my climate...I'm in USDA Zone 5b...which is warmer than 5 but colder than 6...lol... tells you a lot huh? We usually have snow cover from December to April. The snow is beneficial to the plants...without it the frost goes very deep into the soil and the plants are exposed the freeze/thaw conditions...which will kill anything no matter how hardy.