Jenny Peterson, of J. Peterson Designs, explains the difference between a labyrinth and a maze and provides a photo gallery of some fabulous labyrinths, including one of fire!

In addition, you can see what all the members of the Roundtable had to say on the topic by follow the links to their blogs.

As Jenny says, a labyrinth is a flat surface containing an intricately designed pathway, while a maze is a left-brained puzzle, full of different pathways containing tricks and turns.

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 Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Barbara Haddock Taylor

Garden Variety was busy last week working on a fun piece for The Sun's new home section.

It is about designers, and how they don't travel like the rest of us. They travel with purpose!

Among those I interviewed were Pierre and Nancy Moitrier of Designs for Green Gardens in Annapolis, a free-spirited couple who decribe themselves as "gardeners" not "landscapers." They are not about manicured lawns and perfectly groomed hedges.

Pierre and Nancy travel often to France, where his family lives, and they love to visit the old villages there. The ancient castles and monasteries inspired Pierre's love of "ruin gardens," and he carried that vision to one of his recent clients, building a whimsical garden gate of stone and installing a mirror that makes the garden seem to go on forever.

Read all about them, and interior designers Mona Hajj and Rita St. Clair. Then visit the photo gallery of their creations.

And then you can take a tour of one of Pierre and Nancy's favorite places, Jardins du Prieure d'Orsan, a bed and breakfast established in a 900-year-old monastery and the extraordinary garden "rooms" around it.

(For a look at the garden before the new installation, keep reading.)

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The Garden Designers Roundtable is a group of energetic and generous garden designers/bloggers who "gather" on the Internet each month to offer their advice on a particulare design topic.

This month's topic is small spaces.

Gardening books are written for gardeners with over-sized yards - the real Eden-makers in gardening.

But whether you have a small garden - or would like to create an intimate spot in a larger garden - the designers have answers for you this month: every space can be a garden!

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