Last week the Wisteria was in full bloom on the roof garden that I see from our kitchen window.
Churchill Garden is a small park on Bleecker Street and 6th Avenue. I like the weathered painted sign and lamp.
A bee swarm settled on a tree guard by Abingdon Square Park.
Wisteria, my kitchen windown, Horatio Street 5/7/2020 
Winston Churchill Square, 5/13/2020 
Winston Churchill Square, 5/13/2020 
Winston Churchill Square, 5/13/2020 
Bees by Abingdon Square 5/13/2020 
Bees by Abingdon Square 5/13/2020
I love wisteria but not been successful at growing it.
Try again. Maybe it likes being somewhat dry in a tub?
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the name:
“The botanist Thomas Nuttall said he named the genus Wisteria in memory of the American physician and anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Questioned about the spelling later, Nuttall said it was for “euphony,” but his biographer speculated that it may have something to do with Nuttall’s friend Charles Jones Wister, Sr., of Grumblethorpe, the grandson of the merchant John Wister.
“Some Philadelphia sources state that the plant is named after Wister. As the spelling is apparently deliberate, there is no justification for changing the genus name under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. However, some spell the plant’s common name ‘wistaria’.”
I love this. Thanks. I signed up for Websters word of the day because I love etimology.
Me too. It’ll never have the popularity that flowers do, but so what?
Nuttall, though English, spent lots of time in America between 1808 and 1841. Some species in Texas are named after him.
oh my those bees . . hope an apiarist came and took them to a hive
Yes, one did. He took away more than half of them.
excellent news
That is a lot of bees
And that was after half the bees had been removed!
I once found a huge swarm of bees on a sailboat bimini in a marina. A beekeeper came and got those, too. Needless to say, there were a few people who were freaking out and wanted to spray them with something lethal, but the bees were saved. That’s a great photo.
a few bystanders were alarmed too. I like bees. A lovely book about them is Buzz… https://www.amazon.com/Buzz-Nature-Necessity-Thor-Hanson-ebook/dp/B0776S3FQ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542286924&sr=8-1&keywords=buzz+book
Thanks for the recommend. Now I’m wondering if a friend who keeps bees might have named one of her hives (“Buzz”) after the book.
“Thirty dollars pays your rent on Bleeker Street.” — Simon and Garfunkel
Our rent was $24 a month in the ’60s 😉
What a fantastic sight to see all of those bees swarming like that!
It’s the season for bees to set up new hives. A aviarist collected them. It is cool.
Beautiful – wisteria is calming and the bees are alarming. Both are amazing.
Thanks 🤣