I enjoy the surroundings in this garden and as you can see, some of these dinosaurs have a lot of open space around them.
This Scraposaur is called Scrappy Ed.
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I cropped the Fun Facts for you to see more clearly below, but you can click on each photo to enlarge. Hopefully you can read them better.
More facts can be found at this website.
This is fashioned after an Edmontonia, a nodosaur ankylosaurid. It lived in the Late Cretaceous Period (76.5-65.5 mya), in the class Nodosauridae and was an herbivore. The first one was discovered in 1915 in the Edmonton Formation (now known as the Horseshoe Canyon). Its range included Canada and the northern USA and was one of the last non-clubbed ankylosuras to date. Their sizes could reach 23 feet (7 m). It was a heavily armored herbivore. If you have anyone writing up homework papers on such things, you can read more about the Edmonton Group here. I have added links all through this post, for my own benefit also, as there is a lot of information to take in. These wonderful sculptures have sown a seed for me to find out more.
Our next one has no name other than the title, T-Rex Evolved. This sculpture was one of my favorites. The first partial skeleton of a T-Rex was discovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown, then an assistant curator from the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in Montana. It would be a holotype specimen. Holotype means a single type specimen upon which the description and name of a new species is based.
Scientists have determined because of these fossil specimens, that a Tyrannosaurus rex could be up to 40 feet long and 12 feet high and estimated to have weighed between 11,000 and 15,500 pounds (5,000 and 7,000 kilograms), with skin and flesh on its bones. That's about as much as the largest African elephant. I found all this information and a little more from here.
A cropped version of fun facts from the photo above.
You can read more about the T-Rex at this link. Mr. Lewis has created quite a magnificent one.
As there is such a lot of information on these dinosaurs, I will leave the rest to one last post to be shared later. Instead, here are a few photos of flowers taken.
They have several of these old-fashioned urns full of plants and flowers. The ground cover you see in the borders (and below) are Lesser calamint, which you can see and read about here.
The pink flower is called Angelonia and this is another website with more information. The purple flower is Scaevola aemula, commonly known as Fairy Fan Flower or Fan Flower, which you can read about here.
I have added a cropped version. It's a pretty one! I don't remember seeing it before or perhaps I just didn't notice it in any of the gardens we've been to. I occasionally miss a few.
I am familier with this one. It is called Honeysuckle Fuschia.
We have had them in one of our planters on the deck. I need to buy more as the other plant died. I spotted a couple of hummingbirds hovering and drinking nectar from the bells last year. I would love if they came back.
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