Scottish Artist and his Garden

Scottish artist John Stoa compiles notes and pictures of his painting projects and seasonal gardening activities in the flower, fruit and vegetable garden and greenhouse. website www.johnstoa.com

Friday, 30 October 2020

Five Figure Studies

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 Five Figure Studies These five studies were started many years ago to enhance my creativity to produce several different paintings from one...
Saturday, 24 October 2020

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 A few days before Halloween is a perfect time to harvest this year's crop of pumpkins. I got 6 fruit from 4 plants and two of them are ...
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

PLANTS FOR SPRING

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                                                          PLANTS FOR SPRING  As the summer flowers begin to fade we look ahead to next year ...
Monday, 21 September 2020

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  PERIMETER PLANTING There has been a very remarkable change in the gardeners weather pattern. Climate change has not only given us mi...
Monday, 14 September 2020

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                                                        LATE SUMMER HARVEST As summer draws to a close, fruit and vegetables all start t...
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Monday, 7 September 2020

GARDEN HIGHLIGHTS

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                                                            Rose Congraulations  As we reluctantly head towards the end of summer the harve...
Monday, 31 August 2020

BACK TO THE GREENHOUSE

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  BACK TO THE GREENHOUSE Add caption Plants under glass have been protected from thunderstorms and g...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

BACK TO THE ALLOTMENT

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                                                  BACK TO THE ALLOTMENT Although gardening is very much in focus just now as lockdown and ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2020

THE HERB GARDEN

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Lockdown has given many people more time to get into their garden as well as being more adventurist in the kitchen. Growing herbs is now...
Monday, 10 August 2020

SUMMER PROPAGATION

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Keen gardeners have always welcomed admiration for their horticultural success and only too ha...
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John Stoa
I was born in Scotland commencing working life as a gardener in Dundee Parks Dept. I studied crop science at The Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie Dundee. After getting married moved south to Sussex. Gained the National Diploma in Horticulture in 1969, then moved to Worcester to work as a manager on Fox Fruit Farm. In 1972 returned to parks work and outdoor leisure facilities in Dudley then onto Darlington, and Livingston before returning to Dundee in 2001. Became a full time artist in 1992. Interest in art was established in early childhood and am self taught. Subjects cover town to country, floral to figurative, snow scenes, summer landscapes, and Scottish castles. I run art classes in my studio and often publish limited edition prints, as well as luxury Christmas cards. My art and gardening and allotment activities can be seen on my ever expanding website www.johnstoa.com
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