I love meadows and I love mazes. What could be better than to bring both together. We found a pub, last weekend that cuts a maze into their meadow. The White Horse Inn in Mark. There is an aerial photo on their website.
The green banner in the middle marks the centre and was the target. All three children enjoyed walking/running/jogging around the maze. They must have played for a good half an hour. No cheating. It’s meant to take about 15 minutes, but they had so much fun, they kept on going around. Making their way along the paths. Other children joined in, but they didn’t seem to meet each other.
We leave part of our garden to grow into long grass each year, and mow paths through it, so we can enjoy it. The insects soon find it. There is nothing better than sitting in the middle of the long grass, on a warm day, and spotting all the mini-beasts. I can only imagine how many insects are attracted to the pub’s maze.
This is such a great idea. I can imagine it’s a hit with all the children (and adults) as well as the bugs. I suspect we will be dropping in again before the meadow receives its final mow of the year.
What a fabulous idea and love how much fun your children were having following the maze 🙂
They did have fun. They probably didn’t even realise how much exercise they were getting.
It is a wonderful idea and full respect to the pub for making it work,. We used to have a large meadow garden and tried to create the same, however the sections between the paths filled with stinging nettles and brambles which was not the effect we wanted at all. I’d love to know how the pub manages theirs. It certainly looks a lot of fun and spread over a wide enough area to make it a good challenge.
Thank you for sharing with me on #CountryKids
Sounds like you have fertile ground. We don’t have many nettles in our meadow grass, but do in the rest of the garden. It may be down to the timing of the cut. We keep ours short for the mining bees and once they have gone, then it’s allowed to grow.
What a wonderful place and idea. Not surprised you plan a return visit. We’ve let part of our garden turn into a wild flower meadow – just wish it was bigger now so we could have a maze too!
Yes, our meadow grass area isn’t big enough for a maze either, but it would be fun.
What a brilliant idea and a way of encouraging nature but also a great way to provide something for the kids too 🙂
Same here. I love meadows and mazes too! We have a little meadow in our new house… Well, really tiny. We have some wild flowers growing there, so every time we mow the lawn, we avoid that area and actually want the grass to grow longer there 🙂 #countrykids.
This is such a great idea, my kids would love this. Just goes to show the simplest ideas are the best 🙂
Oh my, this is a fantastic idea. Your kids looks like having so much, should be interesting and even more fun when the grass grows even taller. xx
This made me wish for a massive garden like yours! Such an amazing idea and yes so much fun! #countrykids
That’s brilliant! What a great idea and such fun too 😉
What a lovely maze enjoyed both by kids and wildlife. #CountryKids
Wow, I would love a garden where I could leave the grass long to grow. Great that your kids managed to spend so long running around the maze. What a beautiful idea #countrykids
I love the long grass and we used to make our own mazes in cornfields when we were young. It must have driven the poor farmer mad.
Hmm. I’m sure it did, but what fun!
Wow! A very nice idea.
Thanks Lisa