How To Design A Garden Maze
It presents the walker with choices and dead ends a puzzle to solve for fun says andrew wiggins designer at the labyrinth.
How to design a garden maze. Also it will beautify large enough gardens and provide a wonderful ambience to the gardening area. Leonard perry extension professor for an unusual and different garden feature why not create a maze or labyrinth in your own backyard. My long time appreciation of all maze type structures and gardens inspired researching and posting these photos of hedge mazes garden designs and labyrinths.
How to make a garden maze. A traditional garden maze however requires hedges or shrubbery that can grow to heights of 6 feet or more and would require much more maintenance. Of the two forms labyrinths offer more options on what materials you use to create them.
The first step in making a garden maze or labyrinth is to design it. Make a layout on the ground with rope or string. Then it s just a matter of putting in plants or other garden materials according to your design.
Decide which plants to use. Building a garden maze addition will be time consuming and so is ideal for those with the time to spare. Gravel sand rocks tiles bricks pavers and low growing vegetation are some of the many choices available.
This is not the kind of garden you can make on the fly. It s not hard to do though it s a good idea to first draw the outline on paper regardless of the design or group of patterns you choose. Materials lawn mower rope or string plants corn.
Garden mazes are not a new development and goes as far back as castle structures. Creating your own garden maze or labyrinth. The traditional choice is evergreen shrubs such as boxwood.