Weekly photo challenge: today (2) – The Dell
By: roughseasinthemed
Tags: alameda botanical gardens, postaday, the dell
Category: Flowers, Gardens, Gibraltar, Photography, Travel
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The Dell is a magical spot within the Alameda Gardens.
It’s an almost subterranean nook, or a sunken garden, or however else you want to describe it.
You look down on it from the bridge, but, it’s not open to the public. Maybe that’s why it’s so magical – a secret garden that you can’t enter. Only to be looked at from afar.
You can get married there however, and in summer it’s pretty popular as the setting for that supposedly magical day. Whether the rest of married life together is magical is another matter…..
The other way to get into The Dell is to join the free monthly tours, run on Saturday mornings at 10.30am. The next one is on Saturday 9th June, and the dates for the rest of the year are:
Saturday 7th July
Saturday 22nd September
Saturday 13th October
Saturday 10th November
Saturday 8th December
Otherwise, you can gaze down from the bridge at the huge fish, swimming peacefully in their small pond.
Or look up at the roof of the bridge, shaded by the mass of roots from … actually I have no idea what roots they are. Must look next time.
The bridge with its roof of gnarled roots has its own magical quality.
Every picture tells one 
this is quite amazing – especially those gnarled roots overhead.
i wonder too, what kind of plant has roots which are ok to be suspended in the air like that without having to be settled in the soil to retain moisture. if you find out, then do feel free to keep us posted!
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I’ve walked over there loads of times, but never taken pictures of the roof before. Which is strange because I like roof pictures (you’ll maybe remember the vaulted roof ones I took a while ago).
If I can’t work it out myself, I’ll collar a gardener or go on another tour.
What’s also strange is that you don’t get soil dropping on your head 😀
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Just remembered ficus has roots all over the place in the air, but this isn’t ficus.
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Well then I look forward to seeing what you are able to unearth about this mystery, Sherlock! 🙂
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Sherlock went down the town today to street parties, so has been a bit slow on the case 😦
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all in good time, and no pressure!
no case was ever solved in haste 🙂
trust you had a good time at the street parties! 😀
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It’s just really about wandering around and soaking up the atmosphere 🙂 – of which more today!
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I looked at your top pic and thought that looks like tree roots, then read further, and found they are.
I find it amazing that they are all intertwined amongst themselves, and not trying to grow downwards to find earth.
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Now I really have to discover their roots (!!)
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