Herb maze

Having demolished a decrepit old shade tunnel, with the help of a grant from BBC Breathing Spaces/Big Lottery Fund and Datum Design, a local building company, we are now laying out a herbal maze. Our maze is based on a design by Batty Langley, who wrote New Principles of Gardening in 1728. He in turn copied the Hampton Court maze, but changed the overall outline shape of that maze to create a rectangle, which we in turn have copied.



Key to the herbs used in the maze (starting from the centre):

pink: dianthus (clove pinks)
yellow: pink hyssop
purple: lavender
orange: thyme
brown: lavender stoechas (French lavender)
green: lavender Hidcote
blue: blue hyssop
outer ring: lavender Munstead
to punctuate the entrance and the four corners of the central ring: Miss Jessops rosemary