RHH's photos with the keyword: bicolor

We put up three nest boxes this spring for Bluebirds. We have a pair of House Wrens in one of them, a pair of Tree Swallows in another, and I've been regularly evicting the House Sparrows from the third. This is the male Tree Swallow perched on our back fence. The female is shown in the two insets and lacks the blue coloring of the male.

This is a female Tree Swallow on her nest in one of the boxes I put up this spring. I put them up for Bluebirds but have gotten Wrens and Swallows instead.

The female Tree Swallow lacks the bright blue coloring of the male. This is the female on her nest in one of the boxes I built for Bluebirds.

Photographed in Millennium Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this is a Tree Swallow. They range all across North America and we see them in our backyard but they seldom perch and are almost impossible to photograph if they do not.

Dendrobium cuthbertsonii is one of the most desirable miniature orchids, with long-lasting flowers, a rainbow of colors and huge flowers on a tiny plant. It is from the mountains of New Guinea and requires cool temperatures and high light.

Last autumn we hiked in Wallace Falls State Park and saw more mushrooms and fungi than we had ever seen before, many of them very beautiful. If I am not mistaken, this is Russula bicolor, an edible species.

Photographed on the beach near Port Townsend, Washington, in Fort Worden State Park.

Formerly classified as Masdevallia bicolor.

This is one of the orchids I grow, a miniature species from the highlands of New Guinea. Its flowers come in a rainbow of colors, are huge for the size of the plant, and last upwards of six months. The plant is only centimeters tall and the flowers 3-4 cm. Last November I purchased several plants of this species from Golden Gate Orchids, one of them a rose-pink color. It turned out that a tiny piece of this plant was growing in the same pot and is actually the better of the two with huge flowers even for this species and very intense color in both flower and lip. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.ca/2013/05/dendrobium-cuthbertsonii-bicolor.html

This micro miniature orchid from New Guinea is my favorite. The plants are only a single cm tall and have wonderfully pebbled leaves (visible on the left). The huge flowers which dwarf the plant are about three cm and last as long as six months, so that the plant is in flower almost year around. This bicolored clone was recently purchased as a seedling and is blooming for the first time with three flowers and several buds. The plant shown below is another color form, and its varieties both in nature and in cultivation are many. Some of idea of the size of plant and flowers can be gotten by comparing them to the details of the moss in which the plant is growing. At present it is in a small clay pot filled with sphagnum moss, but does well on a mount also. More pictures can be found here: orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2011/07/dendrobium-cuthbe... .

This species comes in such a rainbow of colors and the flowers last so long that it has to be a favorite among all miniature orchid. It certainly is one of mine and I have quite a number of different color forms. The species is from Papua New Guinea, requires cool temperatures and rather high light. orchidsinbloom-ron.blogspot.com/2011/07/dendrobium-cuthbe...