I love dinosaurs and Jurassic Park, says fan who splashed whopping £27k to create pre-historic garden

A DINOSAUR fan has turned his back garden into Jurassic Park — after persuading his wife they should shell out a total of £27,000.

Garden centre assistant Mark Kitchen, 51, got two palm trees before persuading reluctant Helen, 50, to add a £1,000 model velociraptor.

The couple now have seven beasts including a pterodactyl and a 10ft T-Rex.

Mark, of Preston, Lancs, said: “I love dinosaurs and Jurassic Park too and just wanted to create a pre-historic garden.

"Helen eventually came around and loves it now, too.”

“The garden was a blank canvas and I’ve always wanted to have tropical plants so I started with two palm trees in the corner and it just developed from there.

“I went to a garden centre and they had a velociraptor and I said to my wife ‘I’m going to buy that, it looks amazing’.

"And she said ‘no you’re not.’ It just went from there.

“She eventually came around and loves it now.

"I always wanted to be a paleontologist but never got to do it. I just wanted to create a Jurassic prehistoric garden.”