Beautiful Gardens Lorna Woods
Moosomin, Saskatchewan Story by Dorothy Dobbie, photos by Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie
F
ind some things. Look at them with a critically artistic eye. Turn them into part of paradise. That sums up the style world of Lorna Woods in Moosomin, Saskatchewan. Lorna grew up with very little and had to learn to make do with what was at hand. She has carried on this lesson in life as she and her husband built their farm and their home, step by step, using what they had. Lorna laughs as she recalls a farm hand who asked in wonder, “How did
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The cottage pool house with the wrought iron fence in the background.
you get all these beautiful things?” She wasn’t sure he believed her answer in the way it was meant: “Day by day, through very hard work!” she told him. But that is exactly how it happened. This is southern Saskatchewan, big sky country. And this is the heart of a farm. The wind sweeps by all around, but here in Lorna’s yard, all is tamed and tidy. The pale grey clapboard farmhouse is meticulously kept, inside and out. The grounds could grace any counIssue 2
try garden magazine. At the rear of the home at one end of an in-ground swimming pool, there is a structure that looks like a summer cottage. It matches the house in the pale clapboard finish, the window grilles, the gabled roofline. Fieldstone pillars hold formal topiary plants flanking stone steps that are mounted to a deck that opens through some French doors to a grand room. Before entering, a look back reveals more fieldstone pillars, topped by localgardener.net
