A formal garden structure designed as a puzzle or walking path, traditionally constructed using densely planted, heavily pruned evergreen shrubs like yew or boxwood. Unlike a simple maze, a true labyrinth often has a single continuous path winding to the center, though the terms are frequently used interchangeably in horticulture. They require intensive, precise shearing to maintain their geometric walls.
Heard on the job
We need to schedule the trimming crew for the labyrinth before the new growth gets too woody to cut clean.