Maintaining a maze
Whatever labyrinth or maze type you choose, it will need some maintenance. This might be planting annual flowers, dividing perennials, pruning shrubs, mowing turf, or trimming weeds between stepping-stones and stone walls. Thinking about the maintenance is a key part of maze design and mustn’t be neglected at the planning stage. When mazes became popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, maintaining a garden large enough to house a hedge maze would have required fifty or sixty servants, by comparison, two people using modern equipment today could manage the same garden, but do you have two people and the right equipment?
Deciduous plants such as hornbeam and lime are wonderful in summer but during the leafless months of the year they can look moth eaten, while the slower-growing conifers, yew and cypress, besides being expensive to purchase, even as small plants, necessitate a long waiting period before the hedges attain a good height and thickness. Juniper, holly, and the various thorn-bushes can be inhospitable to the gardener, and the visitor. Hedges need regular trimming and sometimes partial renewal, especially when visitors or pets push through them.
When it comes to labyrinths, turf paths require very frequent trimming, Annual mazes can be time consuming to plant and still require regular weeding and care of paths. Permanent stone mazes last for decades of course, but it can take months, if not years, to build them in the private garden, and they still need to be maintained, especially to remove moss and algae and make sure paths are not slippery.
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