NEVER MIND FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN — I’VE GOT DINOSAURS!

EDWARD Scissorhands famously created a topiary dinosaur with his bare hands. And that film’s director, Tim Burton, is clearly fascinated by the beasts — he has a ‘dinosaur garden’ at his home with a dozen life-sized, handpainted Jurassic creatures . . . including a 25ft Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The garden (and its oversized occupants) are concealed behind high walls at Burton’s Oxfordshire country home, but the writer of his new TV project, Wednesday, caught a glimpse during a chat with the director recently. Alfred Gough, showrunner of the forthcoming series about the youngest member of the Addams family, reveals: ‘We FaceTimed — and Tim, in a classic Tim Burton frame, was outside in his dinosaur garden!’

Wednesday is the film director’s first venture into television and Netflix want the show to feel like an eight-hour Tim Burton movie.

For his part, Burton (pictured) has been taking a hands-on approach with the production. His go-to costume designer Colleen Atwood created the clothes, including an iconic Morticia dress for actress Catherine Zeta- Jones.

And he’s been directly involved with details ranging from the big (the main monster is based on one of his drawings) to the small (Jenna Ortega, as the teenage Wednesday, sports a fringe . . . which Burton trimmed himself). Explaining his love for the creepy clan, the director said: ‘I think all families are strange and the Addams Family is very symbolic of how I feel about them, because I’ve never met one that doesn’t have some strange qualities.’

He added: ‘I particularly love Wednesday. I’m obviously not a teenage girl, but I think in a past life I might have been, because when I read this, I just felt like she shares my world view.’

The series starts on Netflix on November 23.