Swallowtail Garden Seeds

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I seen this image (painting) the other day that captured my eye.

Martin Johnson Heade, Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871, oil on wood, National Gallery of Art, Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.


Three hummingbirds, a Sappho Comet (green with a yellow throat and brilliant red tail feathers) and two Brazilian Amethysts (green with pink throats); A hummingbird nest.

The Cattleya orchid, a bright pinkish-purple flower that is much sought after by orchid collectors and is found in the wild only in Brazil.

An American Naturalist

American painter Martin Johnson Heade (1819 – 1904) specialized in landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes during his long career. Born the son of a farmer in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Heade began to paint in his late teens after he received art training from a neighbor. At age twenty-four, Heade launched a career as a portrait painter and spent the next fifteen years traveling around the United States and Europe in search of commissions. He was nearly forty years old when he began to paint the New England coastline and salt marshes, subjects whose light and atmosphere would preoccupy him for several years.

Heade began painting hummingbirds in 1862. He had long been fascinated by the tiny birds’ quivering movements and jewel-like plumage. The next year, in 1863, he journeyed to Brazil on the first of three expeditions he made to South and Central America. At that time many artists and scientists undertook similar trips to study, draw, and document the exotic plants and animals of the lush tropical rain forests. Heade was particularly interested in the many types of hummingbirds in Brazil, as only the ruby-throated species was found in the northeastern United States. In Brazil, he began a series of small pictures called “The Gems of Brazil,” which depicts the great variety of hummingbirds in landscape settings.

In the 1870s, after his final visit to the tropics, Heade lived in New York City. There, relying on his memory as well as on the nature studies he made during his travels, he began to paint another series of hummingbirds with orchids in their natural habitat. This group of works poetically combines Heade’s interests in botany, birds, and landscape. Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds is a dazzling example of his inventive compositions.



Martin Johnson Heade (PDF)

That led me to the Swallowtail Garden Seeds website. Below is a tiny sampling of photos/images/paintings.

Daffodils - A spring-flowering, bulbous perennial with flowers commonly in shades of yellow, orange and white. Album van Eeden. Harlem's Flora, door A.C. Van Eeden & Co. (1872):




Natal Lily:



Stemless gentian. Gentiana acaulis. Perennial flower with Intense blue blooms on low growing, evergreen plants. Flowers in late spring and summer. Native to central and southern Europe. Usually found at high elevations. By P.J. Redoute (1827):




Amaryllis crocata. A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Bury, P.S. (1831-1834):




Roses and anemones by P.J. Redouté:




Poppy anemones. Anemone coronaria hort. Illustration by P. J. Redouté:




Papaya, fruta bomba. Carica papaya. Illustration by G.D. Ehret (1750):




Still life with hyacinths and a butterfly. Alfrida Baadsgaard (Danish, 1839–1912):

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Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May. By John William Waterhouse:




Single hollyhocks. By Anthonore Christensen (1849-1926):




Hollyhocks, poppies, love-lies-bleeding, and lilies. By Anthonore Christensen (1849-1926):




A morning glory:



Angels Trumpet 'Blackcurrant Swirl' in front of 'Zahara' zinnias:




Bee on Arizona Apricot gaillardia flower:




Pollinating bachelor's button:




Ox-eye daisy with Candy Stripe spider:




Still life of roses, lilac, peonies, tulips, an iris, auriculus, Fritillaria imperialis, morning glory, and other flowers in a terracotta vase on a stone ledge, with a sprig of honeysuckle (1812) Oil on canvas by Arnoldus Bloemers (1792-1844):




Stilleven Van Bloemen by Dutch artist Arnoldus Bloemers (1786-1844)
Primrose, lobelia, morning glory, nasturtium, dahlia, ground morning glory, flowering tobacco, rose, anemone, aster, coreopsis and more:

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The Grass Cutter (c. 1895) By Daniel Ridgway Knight (American, 1839-1924):




"The Flapper" (1922)
Painting for Life Magazine cover by Frank Xavier Leyendecker, 2 February, 1922:




Japanese Wineberry & Shuckless Strawberry (1895)
The Japanese wineberry is a species of raspberry that has naturalized in the Eastern United States. The Shuckless strawberry fruit parts from the calyx when picked, as with a raspberry. From the John Lewis Childs catalog (1895):




The American Cowslip (1801):


Dodecatheon meadia, Shooting Star, Pride of Ohio, Rooster Heads, Prairie Pointers, Pink Flamingo Plant.
Painter: Henderson, Engraver: Stadler
Aquatint, stipple engraving and line engraving, printed in color and hand-colored. The American Cowslip Thornton, R.J., New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus and the temple of Flora, or garden of nature, t. 28, (1801).


Flowers with Fruit and a Bird's Nest on a Marble Ledge (1840):


Oil on canvas by Arnoldus Bloemers (1792-1844)
Lilac, Peony, Tulip, Rose, Iris, Maltese Cross, Azalea, Larkspur, Scabiosa, Clematis, Poppy, Sweet Pea, Campanula, Avens, Baby's Breath, Anemone, Columbine, Coreopsis, Ranunculus, Grape, Plum, Peach, and Raspberry.


Our lady of cow parsley by Elisabeth Sonrel (1923):




Thelocactus bicolor. Short, cylindrical cactus with very clearly marked ribs. Purple and red flowers grow from the very top of the plant. Native to Texas, and northern and central Mexico. (1904):




Rhododendron argipeplum - circa 1859:






Childs' Golden Japanese May Berry (1895). From the catalog of John Lewis Childs (1895):

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Raspberries. John Lewis Childs, Inc., (1921):




Vegetables - Lettuce, Corn, Tomato, Pea. A. Currie & Company, 1924:




1903 seeds implements - Washington, D.C. -P. Mann and Co. (1903) - farm scene:




New for 1898. Pea, carrot, and watermelon. Maule's seed catalogue (1898):




Maule's seed catalogue for 1891:




Chinese Lantern Plant. John Lewis Childs seed catalog (1898):




Front cover seed catalog of John Lewis Childs (1895):



Blackberries. John Lewis Childs, Inc. (1921):




John A. Salzer Seed co. 1898:



Playing in the flowers. Mrs. C. H. Lippincott seeds (1897):

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Roses. Peter Henderson and Co., a manual of everthing for the garden. (1899):




Primrose flowers. Miss C.H. Lippincott Pioneer Seedswoman (1896):




Corn 'Angel of Midnight.' Joseph Breck and Sons 1886:




Official site: Swallowtail Garden Seeds (2024 Seed Catalog)

Over 5,000 more at their Flickr site.

Childs' Seed Catalog Illustration (Flickr)

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So pretty ? 

Hollyhocks are my fave here.