A-maze-ing way to garden
GARDENERS have found a novel way to trim one of the world’s biggest hedge mazes – by using stilts.
Cutting the 16,000 yew plants at Longleat House in Wiltshire – which stretch for 1.7 miles – took a team of five a month using scaffolding to reach the top of the 6ft 6in hedges.
But Dorian Bell-Stephens and Ollie Quelch now stand on aluminium attachments, used by plasterers to reach ceilings, to complete the task with petrol cutters in just a week.
Longleat’s Paul Thompson said: “We found these stilts on the internet. What was once a long and rather boring job is a lot more fun and much less energy-sapping.”