Most likely, any owner of a summer cottage is trying to create something unique and at the same time grandiose in it, something that would distinguish his garden from the neighbors. A beautiful fountain, a small pond and so on looks elegant on any site. But the garden labyrinth gives it a special charm. Such a site is completely transformed, it becomes mysterious and attractive. It should be remembered here such methods of garden decoration, which were extremely popular in medieval times, with the help of which they framed graceful palaces or houses of some nobility. Today any gardener who appreciates beauty can already afford such a labyrinth in his garden.

Labyrinths in the garden

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You, of course, have seen the perfect lawn in the movies, in the alley, and possibly on the neighbor's lawn. Those who have at least once tried to grow a green area on their site will no doubt say that this is a huge work. The lawn requires careful planting, care, fertilization, watering. However, only inexperienced gardeners think so, professionals have long known about an innovative tool - liquid lawn AquaGrazz.

Any garden labyrinth is a complex area to build, with intricate paths, passages leading to a specific place on the site - the central part of the composition. They are usually small in size, there are also miniature options that have a simple shape. In addition, different materials can be used to form them, which includes both hedges and stone paths. If there are kids among the family members, then be one hundred percent sure that this garden curb will be their favorite area to play.

The curved lines and contrasting shades make the garden labyrinth especially attractive. Such an element of landscape design can organically fit into a regular garden.

Compositions for the labyrinth

Important points for creating a maze composition:

Location

Before you start creating a garden border on your personal plot, you need to decide on its location. Compositions of many ready-made options in the country can be viewed only from a small height, so it's great if your garden has a hill or a house with two floors. In order to place it, you can choose an area near the recreation area or playgrounds.

Center of the maze

Form

The simplest form is a twisted spiral, in which any paths are closed in its central part. Slightly more complex shapes can be obtained with dead ends.

"Heart" of the building

When forming a composition, it is necessary to pay attention to the interweaving of entrances and paving paths, but also to the center of the territory - the "heart" of the labyrinth. Here it is better to have an area for relaxation, for example, a cozy pergola or wicker chairs with a nearby table. The central part of the composition can also contain interesting flower beds, sculptures, a small pond and much more.

Consider the most common types of labyrinths in the decor of a personal plot.

Hedge Maze Garden

The most impeccable garden decor is the hedge maze, which is of sufficient height. Although in this case, the gardener will have to spend a lot of time and effort to create it. Shrubs or trees that create such a garden path need constant care and mowing. Yes, and the territory for such a luxury for your personal plot requires a fairly large one. But, if the territory of your personal plot is rather big and you are ready to constantly care for such a hedge, then you just have to start work. Since a similar element of your personal plot will certainly turn out to be a favorite place for all members of your family. Most likely, both your kids and grandchildren will be able to spend a lot of time there, running along the winding paths and entrances, since a hedge that is correctly planted, with careful care, will not lose its attractiveness for many years.

Garden decor example

In order to create a labyrinth and a border from a hedge, you can use a variety of plants, from common privet to common laurel. If you do not want to wait for many years for your hedge to grow, then you can plant fast-growing varieties of shrubs, for example, broom cochia. Thanks to such a shrub, you will soon get a dense mass of greenery in your garden, which lends itself perfectly to shearing. Only here there is one drawback - it will be necessary to restore such a fence annually. Therefore, such a fence should be chosen as a temporary option.

Flower maze in the garden

Today, the creation of garden elements from various varieties of flowers is in special demand among gardeners. They are usually planted as flower beds. For a labyrinth, it is better to choose miniature flowers that have the correct shape, and the stems are rectangular. The flowers should clearly follow the even outlines of the spiral of the structure, so here it is better not to stop your choice on spreading and prone to overgrowth varieties of flowers. You should also not plant beautiful transplanting plants, for example, poppy, as they have a tendency to self-seeding. Self-seeding of these plants in the shortest possible time will cause the straight lines to become blurred and the garden border will not be visible.

Better to choose miniature garden flowers like annuals or perennials. For example, you can decorate your garden plot with spray petunias, snapdragons, salvia, coleus, and a curb rose. An important rule is that the flower beds must clearly follow the contour of our garden element. The choice of flowers in such a solution should be the clearest, otherwise the flower beds will look blurry and not be perceived as something unified. If your composition consists of two closed spirals, then in this version you can use two contrasting colors. You can equip it like an ordinary flower bed, that is, its purpose is to decorate your personal plot or be a place for your family members to walk. In the latter case, paved paths should be laid out between the flowers.

Composition center

Stone border

A stone border is an element of magic in your garden. You can make a path of stones, in this case it will look like the ruins of ancient magic buildings. Like a flower bed, a border can be created to be admired or to create a place for walking. A decorative spiral can be laid out using pebbles or masonry boards that are of the same size. Large boulders or stone walls form a walking option. If there is a desire or it seems that the stone version looks very gloomy, then you can use some kind of decor to "revive" the gloomy stones on your personal plot. All you need in this case is to plant some varieties of plants or flowers between them.

If your structure consists mainly of small stones, then different varieties of "Alpines" will be an excellent choice for landscaping it. You can completely change the stone wall with the help of ampelous or climbing plants, for example, dichondra, ivy or others.

Fantasy option

This option is the most unpredictable, because it does not have any specific lines and clear laws of geometry. There is no need to plan the layout of the garden and choose a place for the center of the composition, since in this case there should be as many intricate moves, unexpected dead ends, as well as all kinds of intersections. A walk in such a garden should be an entertaining journey when you do not know what will open to your eyes around another corner.

Entrance to the maze

The fancy decor of the garden is interesting for another such moment that it may turn out not only to be an organic detail of the garden, like other options, but to occupy a plot of the entire dacha with an area for recreation, playgrounds and paths. An important point here is that any garden passages should be small, so that they often alternate with different turns. That is, if you are in the center of the entire structure, then you will not be able to see what follows a few meters further from you. Such compositions can be created through various arches or graceful pergolas. Here various ornamental bushes and trees grow freely, growing as they want to hide from prying eyes, which is located at a distance of several steps.

Every lover of suburban life dreams of creating something unusual on his site. He is looking for interesting and original solutions for landscape design, coming up with new compositions and architectural projects. But more often than not, it is very difficult to surprise yourself and others.

Nature itself helps a lot. Someone has a century-old tree on the site, others have a natural pond as the "highlight" of the garden, and somewhere an unusual relief will surprise all neighbors. But you can add additional elements of landscape design.

Your site will transform and stand out from others if a maze appears on it. The shape of the maze depends on the size of the site and the creative imagination of the owner. Landscaping offers circular, square and triangular maze shapes. If the maze is large, it is appropriate to make several entrances. And for a small size, one is enough. The middle of the maze can stand out against the background of the entire structure. A flower pyramid, sculpture, sundial, original fountain will look good here.

If the maze has corners, then they can also be selected. Decorative elements will look beautiful, consonant with those located in the center. For example, small flower pyramids, shapes that repeat the central plant. Most often, plant labyrinths are created, but there are options for a stone labyrinth. Sometimes they combine two options - a strip of plants is limited from the sides with stones.

For a stone labyrinth, stone or stone tiles are used. The stone is taken in the same size and stacked in rows. And the stone tiles are laid flat or dug into the ground with the end side.

If you are still in doubt about the need to create a maze on your site, then experiment with a simple option from annual flowers. For such a labyrinth, you should pick up strong vertical dense bushes that constantly bloom. It can be ageratum, tagetes, celosia. The labyrinth of kohija broom with fluffy bright greens will make you admire. The labyrinth of decorative cabbage looks interesting and unusual, having a fantastic shape and amazing color of leaves.

Longer life with a maze of perennial flower crops. Choose the following flowers for this option: irises (bearded and Siberian), perennial dwarf aster, oak sage, large-flowered letter and others. It will be superfluous to use several crops at the same time so that the variegated colors of the plants do not interfere with the perception of the outlines of the labyrinth.

Choose one of the two species, which will differ in flowering periods. To create a labyrinth for years to come, plant conifers along with evergreen deciduous trees. Best suited varieties of thuja western, as well as boxwood or holly Mezerva. Labyrinths of deciduous shrubs look elegant. Spring blooms, summer or autumn colors of plant foliage make the labyrinth a real decoration of the garden. Use the following crops for this: Japanese spirea with pink flowers, varieties - Little Princess, as well as Anthony Waterer. Yellow-colored foliage from Magic Carpet, Gololmound, and dark red leaves from Red Baron, Diablo shrubs. The following varieties are also suitable: white dogwood, varieties with white-edged leaves, as well as with red bark, bright and in winter - Elegantissima, as well as Sibirica Variegata, with yellow edging - Spaethi. All these plants must be trimmed: conifers - about once a season, and the rest - as needed.

And if you decide to plant spherical varieties of western thuja, then decide on its height. If you want a wall height of one meter or more, then plant the Woodwardii variety, and if you create a labyrinth with walls no higher than sixty centimeters, then choose Danica, Marjam. When creating a maze, pay special attention to the paths. You need to walk on them in any weather, so choose a coating that does not retain water. Best of all, gravel, crushed stone, marble chips will cope with this task. Experts recommend first digging a special trench with a depth of twenty-five centimeters on the sides to install a curb there. The trench is filled with sand for ten centimeters and tamped. Then a layer of crushed stone is poured, and the provided material is put on top and also carefully tamped. It will not be superfluous to lay a layer of geotextile, excluding the possibility of mixing this coating with a layer of construction rubble.

The labyrinth decorates the garden, giving it an exquisite and fantastic look. A calm walk along the paths of the labyrinth will help adults to sort out their thoughts and feelings, and children will be happy to hide and come up with new games, imagining themselves as fairy-tale heroes.

The mystery of the labyrinths. Why they were created and how to take Force from them Zhikarentsev Vladimir Vasilievich

The classic maze, how to build it and how to work with it

The classic labyrinth (aka Cretan) looks like in fig. 14. Notice that it has two groups of circles: outer and inner - each with four pieces. First, a person moves along the outer circles, then moves on to the inner ones and, in the end, comes to the center. The outer and inner circumferences are the outer and inner in the Christ formula.

Rice. 14 - Classic Cretan labyrinth

How to build a maze... The order of construction of any maze is shown in Fig. 15. Labyrinths differ from each other in the number of angles (below you will understand what we are talking about) and in shape: some are based on a pitchfork, others are based on a cross. There are also labyrinths, which are based on the form of a person with his five members (see). Labyrinths stand separately, in which there are 30 corners, and the cross is present in them implicitly, we will talk about them in detail later.

Rice. 15 - The principle of building mazes

Blanks for building labyrinths and the labyrinths themselves are shown in Fig. 16-21. The difficulty of the maze depends on how many corners you add to it. Do not be confused by the fact that the entrance to the Cretan labyrinth, which I built, is mirrored in relation to the classical one, just before it I built several labyrinths with the entrance on the left, so here I decided to make the entrance on the right. On the other hand, there are many labyrinths in the world with exactly this location of the entrance.

Rice. 16a - the basis for building a ternary maze-pitchfork

Rice. 16b - labyrinth-three, built by me

Rice. 16c - aka in winter

Rice. 17a - the basis for the construction of a six-dimensional pitchfork labyrinth

Rice. 17b - sixfold maze-pitchfork that I built

Rice. 17c - sixfold maze, top view

Rice. 17 g - aka in winter

Rice. 18a - the basis for building a fourfold labyrinth-cross

Rice. 18b - fourfold labyrinth-cross, which I built

Rice. 18c - aka in winter

Rice. 19a - the basis for the construction of the octal labyrinth-cross - the classic Cretan labyrinth

Rice. 19b - Cretan labyrinth built by me

Rice. 19c - Cretan labyrinth built by me

Rice. 19 g - aka in winter

Rice. 20 - the basis for building a duodecimal labyrinth-cross

Rice. 21 - the basis for building a decimal maze-man

The meaning of the labyrinths. Each of them has its own, we will analyze only two labyrinths, think about the meaning of the rest for yourself.

Labyrinth-vila. If you look at the maze in fig. 16a-c, you will see a pitchfork in front of you, the ends of which are bent. The dead end where the man walking through the labyrinth enters, this is the place where the Minotaur lives - our me. The pitchfork consists of two ends, one of which is bent, pointing to a closed self, and the other end - the other opposite - surrounds this self on all sides. For example, a man is surrounded on all sides by women - the feminine principle, and a woman - by men. Entering the labyrinth, you can see and feel how you are always surrounded by what you deny.

In general, the meaning of this labyrinth is as follows. Our self-absorbed self is surrounded on all sides by the opposition we deny (the more negations, the more such circles), and the whole world surrounds the pitchfork of opposites on all sides, and behind this world the world with its opposites lies something else, emptiness - that's what can be felt and experienced in this labyrinth.

Labyrinth cross. Look at fig. 18a-c. The perpendicular lines of the cross indicate two principles - masculine and feminine, consisting of opposites within themselves. The curved end, where the Minotaur lives, is the position of the mind or thought, a look at things in which a person is closed. For example, someone is locked in on democracy, someone on money, on women, on religion, on the Internet, and the opposite position is denied, of course. But it, as you can see from the drawing, does not go anywhere, it surrounds me from all sides - this is the other end of the line that goes around the entire maze. For example, the moralist is surrounded by debauchery on all sides, the materialist is surrounded by believers, and so on. And not only surround him, but get him, annoy him. You can think about how you get sick of what you deny when you come to the center of the labyrinth to the Minotaur.

Further. See how the opposites of the horizontal line, which represents another beginning, change places: the left end of the horizontal line goes to the right, and the right end to the left, surrounding the self-contained self. What does this mean? The fact that the vision turned upside down in my head is the Gordeev knot (see). He turns everything that you see around and imagining white as black, black as white, good intentions as evil, evil as good, etc. So confusion and lies, an illusion will settle in your head. This illusion, this deception can also be looked for when you come to the Minotaur.

Everything that you see around is not so, the opposite is true. Hence the well-known saying: Listen to a woman and do the opposite.

How to work with a maze. If you mentally walk through the labyrinth, you will notice that you alternately move from one side of the labyrinth to the other - this is a connection of the left and right - masculine and feminine principles - in fact, the left and right halves of the body are connected here, while the cerebral hemispheres begin to work synchronously ...

The outer and inner circles are the outer and the inner in the famous expression of Christ: When you connect the outer and the inner, the left and the right, the top and the bottom, you will be united with God. Where are the top and bottom in the maze? We will discuss this below.

How to walk through the maze? This is clearly stated in the story of the fall of Jericho. Joshua went around the city of Jericho seven times with the Ark of the Covenant, blowing the jubilee trumpets, and the walls of the city fell. In other words, if you, thinking with love about a problem that worries you, walk through the labyrinth along seven circles to the center, it will be solved, and you will find yourself in paradise in this place of your being.

The transition from one side of the labyrinth to the other is the very same jubilee pipes - the pitchforks, into which the person walking through the labyrinth "blows". Look at fig. 22, see, in profile, the pipe exactly represents the pitchfork?

The labyrinth connects the torn mind into a whole ... With the help of what is the single mind torn apart? He is being torn by the snares of the mind. Let's talk about them (for more details about mind networks, see the textbook "The Structure and Laws of the Mind").

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Hello!
Today I want to tell you about another exhibition in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea. This is Green maze open to visit, at any time of the year!

The ticket price is:

But since the labyrinth is located on the territory of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, you will also have to pay for its entrance.

How to get there

If you want to visit the Green Labyrinth, you will have to give up the imported excursions and get there on your own. Since the programs do not provide for a stop at this exhibition.

You can get to:

• Bus.

There are buses 29 and 34 from Yalta, stopping right in front of the entrance to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.

• By car.

We drive the address into the navigator: settlement Nikita, Nikitsky descent 52, and calmly we reach. You can park at the entrance to the Nikitsky Botanical Garden.

The labyrinth is a hedge of tall laurel bushes. As in the film Tournament of Three Wizards with Harry Potter, Only on a smaller scale.

Because the area of ​​the Crimean labyrinth is 1500 sq.m.

They give tasks at the entrance. You need to find a treasure chest, a pool with goldfish, fountains, and of course the exit from the maze. At first, we were skeptical about the labyrinth, thinking that it was purely child's play. Five minutes and we will find all the rooms and leave the maze.

But no! We wandered there for thirty minutes, constantly reaching a dead end! Everything is very cool done! You need to go to all the tracks and check, even if at first it seems that there is a dead end. Because when you come closer, it turns out that there is no dead end there.

On the way there are benches, statues, flowers and trees.

There were several pitfalls. Two of them doused with water (a little), and two more frightened with sounds. Not scary, but a couple of times it was really very unexpected!

There were also hints.

The inside of the labyrinth is very beautiful!

We found all the rooms.

Pool with goldfish.

If you look closely, you can see a fish.

March 2, 2015

“Don't go there! Do not trample the beds! Why did you climb into the flower bed ?! " Often, children outside the city have even more restrictions than at home. Departure to the country house or suburban area becomes a real stress, because the young creature is pulled out of the familiar environment. It is too spacious here, there is too much oxygen and what to do here is completely incomprehensible. Sometimes they are forced to do unusual work, sometimes they are left to themselves and the children do not know what to do with themselves ...

It's fun at the dacha! This attitude will allow the little person to love life outside the city. What is there in your country estate that cannot be found at home? Fascinating and entertaining, forcing you to move and breathe deeply in the fresh country air ... The most popular and simple options are a slide, a sandpit, a pool, a trampoline and a swing. And if you make a rope maze or a climbing wall? We offer you several ideas that can be implemented on the site and that the child will definitely like.

Landscaping for kids

Select a small corner for the child in the country and build there with him a real village with houses, paths and toy inhabitants (dolls or Lego men can play their role).

In the gardens of your village, your little one can plant flowers and herbs, just pick the safest ones. In no case do not decorate your tiny village with lilies of the valley, do not plant irises nearby (their roots are considered poisonous), there is no place for delphinium, foxglove and buttercups. Working with the baby in his personal dacha corner, talk about plants, their benefits and possible harm.

When choosing a place for a children's corner in the country, make sure that evil nettles and prickly rose hips are not growing nearby, and that the fence boards are polished and will not reward the child with a splinter. Make sure that the mini-village is in the shade during the sundial, as the toddler may refuse to leave his property.

House for children in the country

There are many ready-made proposals and a lot of descriptions of how to make a house for children with your own hands. Tree houses are popular abroad. And we suggest you grow a playhouse for your child! Of course, it will take much longer, but you can plant seeds and choose plants with your baby.

A green shelter for young summer residents can be grown from sunflowers. Draw a circle, free the grass outlines and plant the sunflower seeds close to each other.

When the sunflowers grow (they should be about one and a half meters high), tie the flower heads together. The result is a hut-house in which you can hide from your parents.

A similar hut can be made from legumes. Such tapestries-wigwams are sometimes made only for decoration, and your baby can be presented with one such house for games.

At the beginning of the summer cottage, install the base sticks, securing them securely at the top. Plant the plants and adjust the direction as they grow, they should tend upward and braid the base. A hut in the country can be planted from beans, but it is better if it is tall sweet peas. When the pods are ripe, children will play and feast on fresh peas. In addition, this plant improves the soil by enriching it with nitrogen.

School board in the country

Children love to paint on walls and fences. This natural tendency has long been described by psychologists - kids perceive the world in full size, so they even prefer to draw a simple person the size of themselves. So let them draw whatever they want on the big board. It can be chalk or highlighter, it already depends on your preferences. Teenagers will also be happy to draw, since they associate the blackboard with a school where free artists are not given freedom. Do you remember your wonderful school years?

Outdoor autotrack for children

A track like this would look great on the lawn. If it is not there, then an untreated corner of the garden, overgrown with soft grass, will do. To make a racetrack you will need sand and cement, a motorcycle or bicycle tire, flags, paint, and two hollow tubes that will simulate obstacles that cars can crash into.

Draw a track and cut off the sod (the depth will be about 5-10 cm), place the tire in the planned place so that it sticks out from the ground in a semicircle - it will simulate a tunnel. If the tire is installed slightly diagonally, then it can become a "dead loop" for desperate riders.

Fill the finished trench with a mixture of sand and cement, install the pipes and smooth the surface of the route with a trowel. When the track is dry, draw the markings, check the boxes and invite your child to play.

Rope park at your own dacha

A few meters of simple clothesline will make your baby squeal with delight. Between the trees (there should be at least four of them), it is necessary to pull the cord in a chaotic manner, and let the baby try to get through this web.

A summer cottage imitation of a rope park will bring joy to both children and adults. Try to overcome the obstacle course yourself - it's not so easy and very funny. Try not to get confused and be sure to keep an eye on your child as they play in the rope maze.

Swing in the country with your own hands: three budget options

A huge swing can be a good gift for the summer holidays that the child will spend in the country. They can be made from a wooden pallet by tying a rope to a sturdy branch of a large tree. The costs are minimal, and your baby and his friends will have plenty of delight!

Do not forget to sometimes check if the rope is frayed and if the branch to which the wooden pallet is tied is not cracking. Safety first.

Swing from an old chair

You can turn an old chair or an obsolete wooden chair into a swing by hanging them on a branch of a tall and strong tree.

Find an unnecessary chair and eliminate the legs. Attach two boards with screws under the bottom of the seat, and tie a rope to these boards. In order not to damage the tree, place a piece of thick leather or other material on the selected branch under the rope that will protect the branch from abrasion.

Paint the swing in a bright color, then it will become a creative element of your garden design. And children will be much more interesting!

The skate rocking chair is perfect for active and mobile children, because it is more convenient to swing on it while standing, rather than sitting. The author claims that it took him only 20 minutes to make this swing. The author of the skate-rocking chair was helped by his sons. Fathers and children have teamed up to have fun with benefit!

What you need: a skateboard (old or new), strong rope, a pair of rounded sticks, a drill. You or your little assistants need to remove the wheels and drill holes in the board.

Thread the cord through the holes, knotting the joints.

You can make "handles" so that the child is more confident on the future swing. To do this, drill two holes in the rounded sticks, thread the rope and again tie knots at the attachment points for reliability.

Do not tighten the knots too tight, you may need to adjust the length of the cord so that the swing hangs evenly and the "arms" are symmetrical. Tie the finished rocking chair to a tree branch, personally check the finished object for strength, and only then allow the children to have fun.

DIY climbing wall

It will be interesting for young fidgets to conquer the climbing wall. It is not necessary to make it high and very large, low climbing walls are also quite difficult, but they are safer and do not require rope belay.

A universal option would be the A-shaped wall, since on rainy days it can be moved under the roof and there you can continue the fun. Try to make such a climbing wall with your children, and if they are capricious, they say the wall is too small, give a weighty argument - climbing low (up to 4 meters) boulders and walls is called "bouldering" and is a full-fledged sport.

To make a climbing wall for children, prepare special grips (you can buy them at specialty stores or find them on the Internet), beams, two sheets of plywood and carpet for them, galvanized bolts, washers and nuts.

Make two frames from the beams, connect their upper parts and fix them with bolts. Cover the plywood with carpet and glue it to the base, then attach the grab pads to the almost finished wall.

Homemade climbing wall is ready to conquer! Just be sure to keep an eye on your children, especially if they are still very young.

A huge water mattress will not replace a pool, but it will also bring a lot of pleasant emotions to your little ones. On such a bed, it is soft, a little cool and absolutely safe.

To make such a bed, you will need thick film, scotch tape, parchment, iron and water for filling. No overspending will be required, although this thing looks expensive. We warn you right away, if you plan to keep a mattress filled with water for several days in the open air, then it is better to lay it on a sandy area. The lawn is not suitable, as the plants will not be able to breathe under the polyethylene and will die.

To tightly solder sheets of dense polyethylene, fold them together, place parchment paper from below and on top and press with a hot iron.

Try not to touch the film that is not protected by parchment with the iron, otherwise an unexpected hole will appear in the mattress. Remove the paper from the fused edges only after it has completely cooled down, otherwise you can make unnecessary holes again. Although we still need one small hole - we will insert a hose there to fill the bed with water. After filling, cover this area with tape so that the water can be easily drained off.

Spray a cool water bed with water and let the kids have fun!

This concludes the hit parade of budget entertainment for children. We hope that they turned out to be useful to you and you will implement one or two of these ideas already in this summer season. And how you will do it - share the Green Portal with the readers! We are waiting for letters and photos to the email address