There’s magic in the air


June Buzahora with one of the silk banners in her bright garden.


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here’s an aura of magic around


June Buzahora’s Point Douglas garden. It


may seep from the century-old well, where ghosts are held down by June’s papier maché bunny that sits know- ingly on the well’s cover. Or perhaps it is from the walking onions that preside like princes over the large empty vege- table garden. Wherever it comes from, magic is everywhere. Maybe it’s because June is an artist.


When an artist builds a garden can you wonder that it is full of surprises? June, herself, might just dispute the


artist label – she spends her days work- ing for Statistics Canada, but there is no doubt at all that she is an artist. One glimpse of the garden’s signature rabbit is proof of her talent. The way she has created a storyland using beautiful whimsy is another telltale sign. June is a tall woman with a confi-


dent head of hair that belies her natural modesty. She has lived in this house, the house her mother bought from her uncle in 1945, all her life. The house has been in the family for over 100 years. “My mother was a wonderful gardener,”


says June. The yard used to be filled with fruit trees and at one time she had nine beehives.” The yard is no less wonderful


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A papier mache bunny, crafted by June, sits defiantly atop this old well base. Below: echinacea and sunflowers.


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