glasshouse

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They added this yeast to bee diets and tested it over three months in controlled glasshouse experiments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

“Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022

This also involved heading into the glasshouse at night because water lily flowers only come out in the dark.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2022

In the early 1990s, a group of eight hippies sealed themselves into a glasshouse dome in the Arizona desert, intending to replicate Earth’s ecosystems and live self-sufficiently.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2020

Ozwin, the farmer-botanist, needed a glasshouse and fields for planting, so he, too, had to go out of the city and out of the citadel’s shadow, where his seeds and seedlings would see sunlight.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor