Dinosaur Topiary

Somewhere in Missouri (I think, maybe it was Arkansas), as we were driving to Texas, my daughter Mary and I drove under a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Okay, it was actually a vine growing up a telephone pole and across the wire, with some viney branches dangling down like tiny T-Rex arms. But it really did look like a dinosaur about to step into the road, right over our car.

It got me thinking, wouldn't it be, like, so cool if we had a dinosaur topiary garden in one of our town parks? Little kids love dinosaurs. Imagine if we took a section of park and grew trees and vines and shrubbery and trained and trimmed them to look like dinosaurs? How much fun would that be? Walking between the legs of an apatosaurus? Darting away from a charging T-rex? Standing beneath the horns of a triceratops? It would be a total kid magnet. And even maybe a local or regional attraction.

Mostly I think it would be just a wondrous and fun place for a kid to play and dream and run around. I can already hear the joyful screams and laughter.

I wonder how to make it happen....

I just googled dinosaur topiary - there are businesses that sell dinosaur topiary frames, and several parks that feature dinosaur topiary (though some of those look like little dinosaurs, and even tho some dinos were little, T-rexes were not!). The LA Arboretum is one place and The Creation Museum is another, and here's a picture of one big guy in Cincinnati (I think). Awesome!

Topiary Joe just left a comment about his website. Have a look, it is pretty cool!