Lavender?
What are those purple flowers?
Soon, we noticed beautiful purple fields popping up on walks in the area. We imagined ourselves in Provence, and of course the climate is not that different so why not lavender fields? On closer inspection, however, the little flowers looked nothing like lavender, and rather suspiciously like a green manure crop popular with us: Phacelia (bee food). That that would be used on such a large scale here seemed unlikely. Perhaps it also has another use? Fortunately, Wikipedia knew the answer: almost all Phacelia seeds sold with us come from this region of Hungary. So the fields are seed farms. As a side income, you do see a lot of hives near those fields. And so we learn about this beautiful region every day.
