In the last 30 years, the intensity of the green space in the capital has decreased, mostly in the private gardens of the garden cities, while the increase has taken place in the rusted areas and wastelands. on the side of Sándor Bardóczi on Tuesday, Budapest landscape architect. He also mentioned in his post that this decline is also confirmed by satellite infrared photos. We became curious, so we asked him to record, which can be seen at the top of the article.

For the map examining the change in the intensity of the green area, satellite infrared photos from 1992 and 2015 were compared with Budapest Főváros Városépítási Tervező Kft. research. Darker red spots on the map indicate areas where there is a significant decrease in green space intensity of more than 25 percent during this period, a light red color indicates a milder change between 10 and 25 percent, and a yellow color indicates no change (which of course it may also mean that there was no green space there in 1992), a light green increase of 10 to 25 percent, and a darker green more than 25 percent.

Looking at the map, it may seem good news to see larger dark green spots on it, but Sándor Bardóczi said that most of the time they marked the rust zones, which were simply covered with weeds. For example, one of the largest contiguous dark green surfaces is Cancer Organizer:

In his post as chief landscape architect, he said that in spite of the priority investments and the greenfield real estate developments, the biggest “green” districts of Buda and Pest had been hit by the last 30 years in the year of the decrease in the intensity of green space. And this is a problem, the solution is in the hands of the owners of garden houses.

According to Bardóczi, there are basically two reasons for the shrinkage of green spaces in the suburbs: on the one hand, real estate development and over-paving. It is typical that the plots are being built more and more, larger houses are being built in the outer districts, with a car park, outbuildings, a terrace and artificial grass.

But it is also a problem that wherever the garden remains, it is often not properly cared for:

“It has become inconvenient and time consuming to pick up the foliage, it falls on the parked car, it falls into the pool: it is easier to cut it out. Evergreen has become a fashion that looks the same in all seasons. The diffuse fly has arrived, here is a fire death attacking a large family of roses, a mining moth attacking horse chestnuts, or an American weaver sweeping the species. They also destroy the trees in the small gardens, but their replacement is not coming. When it arrives, it’s still mostly evergreens like thuja, fake cypress. And even if the foliage of the deciduous trees is collected, it is often in the bags of the green waste of the FKF, ie it leaves the garden. This deprives our garden of valuable nutrients and makes it poorer. The problem is big enough ”

– writes Bardóczi, then emphasized that one of the keys to Green Budapest is the attitude towards private gardens. And since these are privately owned, the capital can’t dictate who does what with the plot, so they can only ask, shape an attitude.

The second half of your post serves this purpose: write in detail about how important it is for the root fungi that supply the trees with the nutrients themselves to get the right nutrients, and no better source can be found for the autumn foliage we piled under the tree.

“It has a better place there than in plastic bags. It decomposes, is not dangerous, covers the soil and keeps it free from weeds. Also in the beds. We mention the circular economy a lot these days. This is one of the most elementary circular farms, the cycle of our own garden. Where the foliage is not “waste” shipped to nylon bags and transported to thousands of tons by diesel trucks with ad blue additives, but nutrients produced without transport, incineration, recycling, which we buy in the garden department of DIY stores for expensive money. It only requires our work, not money, ”writes Sándor Bardóczi.

But keeping the foliage under the trees is also supported by the fact that there is less stress-relieving activity than gardening, and anyone who just wants to see the evergreen in their garden will give up the gift of the seasons and the nutrients they give for free in the garden.

“So, if today someone from Újbuda, Hilföld, Óbuda, Újpest, Angyalföld, Zugló, Kőbánya, Sashalmi, Mátyásföld, Cinkota, Rákosmente, Kispest, Wekerle-setti, Pesterzsébet, Soroksár, Csepel garden city, , for climate, start in your garden. For planting, foliar collection, composting, branching, wood chips for mulching! He has a season. Forget the nylon bags. We cultivate our own gardens! ” – writes the main landscape architect of Budapest at the end of his post.