1690: Hampton Court Palace maze, replacing an earlier medieval maze, kicks off English fashion for puzzle hedge mazes. 1814: Hedge labyrinth built in Utopian community of New Harmony, Ind.

I have never been to a hedge maze before, ... I am a child of the ’90s, raised on Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth,” so dutifully, I make a mark on the ground.

The labyrinth is made up of more than 16,000 English yew trees that were planted in 1978, and cover one-and-a-half acres making it the largest maze in the UK.

The biggest draw in the Labyrinth Park of Horta is its impressive cypress tree maze. The maze is a labyrinthine puzzle made using over 2,400 feet of hedges.

Hedge mazes have been a fixture of imposing estates for centuries, ... as well as three smaller garden mazes. 2. Masone Labyrinth, Parma, Italy. The Masone Labyrinth | Labirinto della Masone.

This picturesque, privet hedge–style labyrinth was originally planted by the Harmony Society in 1815 as a path to enlightenment. After being re-created in 1939 as a maze, the Harmonist Labyrinth was ...

Yancheng Dafeng Dream Maze, Jiangsu, China. Opened in 2017, Jiangsu is home to one of the largest permanent hedge mazes in the world. The total length of the pathway is 9,457.36 m (31028ft 1 in ...

Colloquially, they were known as ‘mizmazes’ or ‘Troy town’, an allusion to the legend that Troy was fortified with seven walls arranged as a maze, or ‘Shepherd’s Race’, echoing a reference in ...

If you want to add a unique touch to an entryway, do it yourself with these instructions for how to make a hedge maze area rug from Make: Projects user Sean Michael Ragan.

In case it has escaped your notice, Saturday May 6 th is World Labyrinth Day, an opportunity to celebrate these complex, often maddening marriages of geometry, architecture, and horticulture.