How To Design A Garden Labyrinth
Get out pen and paper or a computer program and draw your garden based on the dimensions in the space you have available.
How to design a garden labyrinth. The one i linked to is a 5 unit square seed which makes a 7 circuit labyrinth. This is not the kind of garden you can make on the fly. The first step in constructing a circular labyrinth is to mark out its dimensions.
Circular saw with a masonry blade in case you need to cut bricks. She used a dry laid technique to install the large boulders arranging them in a curve to embrace the area of the labyrinth and create a special enclosed space. A large patch of land that has enough room for you and other walkers to navigate the path into the center and back out again is ideal.
Large field stone steps placed in the hillside lead from the upper area down to the labyrinth. Place a stake to mark your labyrinth s center point. Once the wall was complete the flat area for the labyrinth was graded level.
The first step for creating a simple backyard labyrinth path is to choose the location that works best for you. You can actually create any size classical labyrinth starting from that basic seed pattern. Trench spade for digging out the path the perfect size for bricks trowel for finer digging to get things just right.
Also if you make curves instead of right angles inside the seed square you get an open diamond in the middle see image. The tonoho o odham pattern has two distinct differences from the classical. Use a long tape measure to measure out the radius of the labyrinth then circle the stake at the same distance to mark the labyrinth s diameter.
Such a space would be around 32 feet long and 32 feet wide. Go up to a 7 unit square and you get 11 circuits. Create the seed pattern.