Prehistoric Garden

The third display that I'll be posting about from the Zilker Botanical Garden is their Prehistoric Garden. From a distance, I saw what looked like arrows pointing off to the left. Getting closer, the arrows seemed to keep going, but they kept going in the opposite direction that they pointed. Getting quite close, we can see that they're not arrows, but dinosaur footprints, and they're heading towards the Prehistoric Garden's entrance.



At this area of the Botanical Garden paleobotanists have convened and landscaped the zone to look and feel like a specific time period. They used plants that have changed very little in the last sixty million years. This next picture is not a plant, but helped frame the seclusion of the Prehistoric Garden.



Here is a statue of the kind of critter that you'd find within this environment at the appropriate time.



Here is an ancient type palm, but you van see how small the root structure must be since it grows out of a rock.



When I first saw this tree, I half expected Fred and Barney to come out from behind...