A-MAZE-ing

It had to be a headline of 'A-MAZE-ing. This private maze, of copper beech, planted in N. Lincs is larger than that at Hampton Court. It is about 8 feet high and just in need of a trim. I'm doing a follow through story on the maze, having taken photographs when it was bare, save for a few straggly copper leaves, in March, this picture last week and I shall go again in September - when the pumpkin patch alongside will be in full fruit, too!

On mazes,

Longleat House

home to the 7th Marquis of Bath has at least three mazes: a yew maze, a mirror maze and a wooden one designed by Blue Peter viewers. I rather fancy that the aerial shot of the maze wasn't taken by someone on top of a scaffold (SM!) In Saffron Walden, Essex, where I used to live there is a turf maze of medieval origin. I tend to think of it as a brick maze since that's what the paths are laid out in. The children never seemed to tired of racing around it!