Solving Maze Gardens
The Best Puzzling Experience.
So what is a Maze?
Maze Gardens are made up of complex and confusing series of pathways and passages. The pathways and walls are fixed. Mazes have been built with all sorts of mediums over the past centuries...
Walls Hedges Rooms Turf Corn stocks Hay bales Crops of corn or maise Flowers Screens Fencing materials Plastic Mirrors And for a fun crowd pleaser...People!
 A book for the avid collector, great as a gift suggestion, The Zen of the Labyrinth: Mazes for the Connoisseur.Check here at  for more great and amazing books and games.
There is an almost mystical and magical feeling when you wander through the passageways. I am sure the experience gently soothes the soul..
For Example...
Maise maze gardens can be built very large and their shape is usually changed each year as they are grown seasonally.
Corn maze gardens can also appear in many different designs. Some are created to tell stories to play out a theme. The farms in the east of England love their maize mazes as they are a great tourist attraction and can supplement the expenses of running the farm.
I love a garden and I love to wander beside well planted garden beds. Hedge mazes and gardens go hand in hand, a perfect combination to excite the soul. If you love to garden then check out  Garden Express - Australia's leading mail order gardening supplier with the best range and economical Australia-wide delivery.
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Back to mazes... A Mirror maze, usually built indoors can be a real puzzle to solve as the reflective apparent pathways can create an unreal and confusing solution.
Mazes can also be drawn up on paper and printed to create hours of intriguing fun for the kids. Here are a couple for you to copy and print out.
Try your hand at solving the maze puzzles it can get quite addictive. There are lots of sites on the internet where you can find more to play with, Colouring pages for all ages is a great example, Sheri's work is a-maze-ing...have fun.
Solving Mazes
Wall Flower Traversal using the Right Hand Rule
 The wall flower, the best known rule for getting through a maze is also known as either the left-handed or right-handed rule. The reason for this is that a maze's walls are simply connected together onto the maze's outer boundaryKeeping one hand in contact with a wall you are guaranteed not to get lost and you will eventually find your way to the exit. Place your right hand on the wall as soon as you enter the maze Try the rule out on the print out maze above. Hug the right side and see where it takes you.
 The magnificent Maze in St Lois, USA
Now this is truly amazing, Secrets of the Pyramids: National Geographic Maze AdventuresFor more great books on this topic and others check out
My beautiful State of Victoria boasts as having some of the most amazing and incredible world acknowledged Maze gardens. Listed below are ones that I have visited and some that I am still to investigate. These are found in the surrounding countryside around Melbourne, my very own home town. Hedgend Maze...Healesville Ashcombe maze...Shoreham The Enchanted Maze...Arthurs Seat The Skyhigh Maze...Mt Dandenong Wandilong Maze and Cafe/Wandi Maze...Bright A Maze'N Things...Cowes Boneo Maze and Wetlands Center...Fingal Avenal Maze...Strathbogie Ranges The Tangled Maze...Ballarat A Maze'N Games...Bellarine Peninsular Maroondah Adventure Golf Park...Chirnside Beveridge Birdworld Park...beveridge Maze Bendigo...Bendigo Barrabool Hills Maze and Gardens...Ceres Lake Pertobe...Warnambool Drummond Cottage maze Gardens...Kyneton Ozmaze...Echuca Tiger Moth World/Adventure Snake Park...Torquay
Do you know of one that I haven't listed? Great! I would love to know where, what and how to find it and what you thought of the adventure. Use the convenient Contact me form to jot the info down, I would love to hear from you. Have you visited any of the ones I have listed? Use the same form to write what you thought of the place, it is always great to get feedback. Visit back here often as I am continually writing up and more of my wonderful findings. This really is a great way to spend my time. So many people I am meeting out there who are having so much trouble finding places that don't cost a fortune to visit. I continue to believe that Family Getaways Melbourne is providing some great examples of where to go and what to do for great family getaways. What do you think?
Maze Gardens are Magical...here is something else that I found is magical, you may find the magic as well.
Come with me now to discover some of Victoria's splendid and thoroughly enchanting Maze gardens  Hmm...which one will I start with? How about the one in my very own neighbourhood. The Skyhigh Maze Garden...a puzzle on top of a Mountain. Become a Maze Master, have a cuppa and scone, wander the gardens and sit in the Giants Chair. The Kids love the place...it really is magical.
Check out the weather for your visit and how about having a picnic while you are there.
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