Rock Garden (Delhi)

 park, garden

The biggest landscaped park in Patel Nagar, this oasis provides relief from the mass of builder flats choking the neighbourhood.
Well maintained by a dedicated team of gardeners, the park has many varieties of flowering plants, seasonal plants, apart from the hundreds of leafy evergreens that dot the complex.
Why 'Rock garden'?
It happens to be situated on a hillock, that the authorities reckoned would be too costly to flatten with dynamite when Patel Nagar was coming up in the late 1940's. So it has come to have a surprisingly steep gradient, negotiated using a claystone pathway that winds it way up, flanked by green turf, with well worn rocks here and there, that act as cozy natural benches.

Open till 8 PM, well illuminated and generally considered free of antisocial elements.