Blog 35 – Wisteria of West London

Spring is the best time for the lockdown; it doesn’t rain every day, the daylight is over 14 hours a day now, and the flowers are blooming all over. Our UK guidelines include limited trips for food and medicine and one trip outside each day for exercise. We both have walked or ran almost every day for the past six weeks. We have expanded to exploring every side street and path we can find. We have both taken many pictures as we walk around the neighborhood, to the Thames, to Fulham, to Richmond, to Ealing – pretty much every street within a five mile radius of our home. (We, and Aj too, even completed a 10k this past week; https://runsignup.com/Race/MD/Timonium/LiveGiveRunVirtualRaceChallenge)

Last blog I posted pictures that may be unique to London’s lockdown and show some of what it is like ‘over here’. This blog is about the flowers; in particular the Wisteria. It is old, it is crinkly, it is purple for about two weeks (go Ravens!), and it smells wonderful. News of the virus and resulting lockdown does not need repeated here, but I want to remember, and share, that it has been a wonderful opportunity to really take time to stop and smell the [flowers] (roses are in a few weeks).

Above: This is the oldest Wisteria in the UK. It is from 1816. It can be found on the side of Fullers Brewery here in Chiswick.
https://www.fullers.co.uk/blog/brewery-articles/wisteria

Below is a sampling of the wisteria pictures we have taken over the past few weeks:

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