Moorna, I would love to see photos of the garden gates/mirrors, it sounds really lovely. I really enjoy interesting gardens that have unexpected things/sculptures in them. I am trying to make our place full of little surprises like that.

Sorry Monster but my self imposed rule is that I never post pics of anything connected to my personal life on the internet.

These sorts of things just tend to add something to what otherwise would look like nothing but a boring hedge.

I didn't trim back into the hedging very deeply as I was only creating more of a 'surface' addition.

There are a couple of real gates elsewhere through the same hedges that let you out into the rest of the grounds so the additions don't look out of place.