Glendurgan is one of the great subtropical gardens of the South West. Set in a wooded valley dropping steeply to the hamlet of Durgan on the shore of the beautiful Helford Estuary. The garden is best known for its laurel maze, planted in 1833 and a firm favourite with children.
I could easily get lost there as well. What a lovely garden. Clipping that maze would be a full-time job.
It is and it would 🙂
The maze is spectacular 🙂
Great fun for kids and even older kids 🙂
Lovely gardens and maze Jude. I was stuck in Hampton Court Maze for ages as a teenager. I have tended to avoid them ever since!
Regards as always, Pete. x
I’d rather watch the fun from the bench we were sitting on which gives us a perfect view 🙂
Looks beautiful! I’ve brought the rain to Krakow (sad face) but I’m coping x
You have left some here too 😦
A bank holiday weekend and we have rain and also someone digging up the road (which has been turned into two-way traffic as the May fair is in town and most of the streets around us are closed, so how on earth did they get permission to do it today?) using a pneumatic drill!! I want to go back to Cornwall!!!!
Mazes are spectacular and is this one and well tended too, but I’d hate to get lost in one.
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My sentiment exactly!!
I don’t like feeling lost at any time. What a wuss, but that’s the real me beneath all my blather.
At least I’m in good company. 😮
I don’t know where I got my fear of being lost from, but call me a wuss too!!
That makes two of us. 😮
Agreed…
Gosh, Joanne. You learn something new about someone every day. I would never have guessed that about you. I suppose we all have our fears. For the record, I LOVE getting lost. We used to do it on purpose when I was a kid. We would head out on our bikes and take streets we’d never been down and ride and ride to new places and then try and find our way home. Some of my fondest memories. 🙂
Perhaps the maze is more of a feeling of claustrophobia? I developed a fear of being trapped later on in life and now avoid places and situations where I can’t see out (rooms without windows, caves etc) lifts are OK as at least they are quick!
I think I just felt my throat constrict reading this!
I think it might be a symptom of having control issues 😉
I have never liked a maze since seeing the film ‘The Shining’ – took me several attempts to watch that to the end I can tell you…
I remember that movie. I’m with you. 😀
Wonderful answer to the challenge, Jude. I could happily get lost in that maze. 🙂
Several people did! But I think it is a fairly easy one to get out of 🙂
It would need to be easy, for me to find my way out again. 🙂
Oh, I so love mazes! Wish we had them here! Like this take on the theme.
You don’t have mazes? I think the idea of a maze to get lost in was imported from France. But the idea of labyrinths goes back a long, long way. I find them a bit spooky.
Unfortunately all we have are corn mazes in autumn……bleh.
We have some of those here that are temporary and mostly for kids in the summer holidays 🙂
Great response! I’ve love to see the gardens, but not sure about going through the maze.
janet
You and me both Janet. I’ll just gaze on the maze from this viewpoint above, thank you 😀
Gorgeous maze!!
It’s a pretty one. I need to visit Hampton Court Palace and see theirs!
I love mazes and this one looks particularly tricky!
One or two dead ends, but everyone seems to find their way out 🙂
What a picture perfect spot Jude. As in one of the other comments I am thinking a rather maintenance heavy assume by for the gardener!
Excellent choice Jude, and lovely capture – well done!
OH! I LOVE mazes!! One of the two things I most wanted to do when my parents took me to Europe when I was 12 was the Hampton Court Maze. It was closed. That’s what you get for travelling out of season as we always did (and still often do). The other was the Ferris Wheel in Vienna. It was also closed for the winter. 😦 On the plus side, I have since done both and the Maze twice – once in my 20s alone and then with my husband and children.
We have a wooden maze near us and you must get to each of four coloured flags in the maze before you are allowed to exit (you have a card you have to get stamped at each station where the flags are). I absolutely ADORE doing that with my boys. We’re all so competitive! 😀
I am just itching to get into the maze in your photo. It looks spectacular!
You lead such an exciting life Heather! I imagine a rather loud and chaotic household with all those males 😀
Feel free to drop into my maze any time 🙂
Excellent choice for ‘intricate’! How tall is the maze, ie can you see over the top?
I didn’t go inside the maze Karen, so I’m not sure. Certainly the children couldn’t see over the top.
You have seen so many different gardens Jude and this maze looks rather intimidating, I am definitely directionally challenged so I would be in there for ages. Can you jump up and see over the hedges? I once got really lost in an Ikea store, it was like a maze, only one way out. Ended up with quite a number of us following each other trying to find the way out and no assistants anywhere. I think it was a ploy to keep you in and maybe you would buy some thing…
Haha, sounds about right with the IKEA store – I once had to exit and then enter again as I’d missed the section I wanted!
I’ve never been back!!!!!
No, something like that scars you for life!
Ha ha ha… Don’t like Ikea style any way!!!!
I am so glad I don’t have to tend that maze – what absolute perfection, right down to the last leaf. One wrong snip and you could change the whole flow. I can so picture giggling kids running through the twists and turns.
The kids do seem to enjoy it!
That’s a lovely photo, and the maze looks beautifully kept.
One for you to visit on your next trip to Cornwall?
Just what I was thinking! 🙂