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NHK
7 days ago
- General
- NHK
Kids in Nagasaki create giant sunflower maze
Some children in western Japan have been enjoying a giant maze created in a field with about 40,000 sunflowers. Students at Otsuka Elementary School in Unzen City, Nagasaki Prefecture, came up with the idea for a sunflower maze as a new attraction for the area. They worked with locals for two years to create it. After the seeds were sown in late June, the children prepared the entrance sign and drew up the route to the end. The field is around 3,500 square meters. Kids can have fun exploring the maze, surrounded by sunflowers that have grown as tall as them. The children said they hope many people will come and visit. The sunflower maze will be open to the public through Sunday.
BBC News
19-07-2025
- BBC News
Wiltshire in Pictures: Bees, parks and Longleat's mazes
There is a distinctly natural feel to this week's Wiltshire in Pictures, with a bumblebee duo, maze trimming and an award-winning park all featuring in the week has also seen the completion of a walking sports festival in Melksham and a celebration of businesses which support Special Educational Needs Education (Send) in is some of the best pictures from across the county this week. Blooming marvellous: A historic Wiltshire park has been recognised for its exceptional management and environmental standards. Swindon's Town Gardens has received a Green Flag Award for 2025-26, which has recognised its well-maintained Victorian features and active community engagement programmes. A-maze-ing: A team of 12 gardeners have completed a weeklong hedge cut on the gigantic Longleat maze. The maze, which is made up of more than 16,000 English yew trees, is one of the largest in the world and needs regular attention, but can only be trimmed at certain times of the year. Game, set and stroll: More than 90 people laced up their trainers and joined the fun at a Walking Sports Festival held at Melksham Community Campus on Sunday. The free event gave people of all ages and abilities the chance to try out walking versions of tennis, rugby, football, netball and badminton. County roads, take me home: With the county's fields at their golden peak, Weather Watcher Chully was able to capture this shot of a pristine Calne morning earlier in the week. Over the ridge: Another of our Weather Watchers has been busy in the south of the county, with Broad Chalke's majestic hillsides captured by Lupin. True colours: With the wetter weather at the start of the week, observant photographers had the opportunity to capture a number of fleeting rainbows, such as this one in Malmesbury. Stellar support: 16 companies across Wiltshire have been recognised by Wiltshire Council for their outstanding support in offering workplace opportunities to young people with Council's Send Employer Champion Scheme celebrated its one-year anniversary with companies from across the county being acknowledged.
BBC News
17-07-2025
- BBC News
Train-shaped Wistow Maze marks 200 years of modern railway
A maze has been designed in the shape of a steam train to celebrate 200 years of modern Maze in Leicestershire is redesigned each year into a different theme using GPS satellite technology, with last year's edition inspired by Team GB heptathlete Katarina Brooks, owner of the maze, says this year's design was an "opportunity to celebrate this historic milestone, whilst exercising both mind and body along the way".The eight-acre maze attracts more than 20,000 visitors each year, with visitors challenged to find 12 hidden quiz boards among three miles (4.8km) of pathways. The quiz board will highlight how transport has evolved over the years, organisers will be open daily from 10:00 to 18:00 from Monday to 31 August before only being open on weekends until 14 maize maze also includes high-level bridges and towers, with mini-mazes and games available in the site's activity the end of the season, the maze is harvested for cattle fodder and then redesigned the following spring.
Daily Mail
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The Castle of Maze! King unveils grand design for the Queen Mother's former home
It was a home beloved of his grandmother who would spend hours walking around her Highland estate. And now King Charles is to add to the beauty of the Castle of Mey, in Caithness, as he bids to attract tourists with a new maze. A garden maze is being created in the grounds of the castles which is owned by the King's Foundation. The royal residence became a favourite haunt of the late Queen Mother as she visited friends in the Highlands after the death of her husband, King George VI, in 1952. The monarch developed a love of mazes as a child. The one at Castle of Mey, which will have an ornamental tower in the middle, is aimed at attracting more visitors, particularly children and teenagers, to the site. A planning application for the development has been submitted to Highland Council and the local authority is due to make a decision by August. A design statement accompanying the application reads: 'The project proposes a new maze garden and folly located within a clearing in the woodland to the south east of the castle. 'The folly and maze will form part of the visitor attraction. The construction project itself will provide training in traditional skills with the opportunity for public demonstration and interaction. 'The hedges to the maze would be made from fuchsia like some of the hedges within the walled garden. The hedges would be grown to 1.2m height. This would be above the eye level of a child but would allow an adult to see over the hedges. 'The role of the new building is to be the central focal point of a new maze within the woodland. It is ornamental and provides seating for people at the completion of their visit to the maze. 'It should appeal to all visitors to the maze including children and teenagers and it should be accessible for people with various types of impairments, such as mobility, sight, hearing and autism.' As a child, King Charles spent hours hiding and playing in a maze on the Royal Family's Sandringham estate. In recent years he has had new mazes built at Sandringham and his other Scottish residences at Balmoral and Dumfries House. Speaking at the opening of the Dumfries House maze, he said: 'I'm afraid to say I'm rather indulging in my childhood fantasy of mazes. There's nothing more enjoyable than getting lost in a maze.' The Queen Mother first saw the 16th century Castle of Mey in 1952, when she was staying nearby with Commander Clare and Lady Doris Vyner. She was still mourning her husband, King George VI, but was immediately charmed by the building, then known as Barrogill Castle, despite half its roof having been torn off in storms. She purchased the castle, along with its walled garden and 24 acres of land.. The castle was opened to the public in 2002. Along with other local tourist businesses, it has benefitted from the success of the North Coast 500 driving route, around the north coast of Scotland.
