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glasshouse
Brit a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions

greenhouse, glasshouse
A glass-enclosed, heated structure for growing plants and out-of-season fruits and vegetables under regulated, protected conditions. Also see conservatory, hothouse, orangery.


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The restoration plan for this area is to bring it back into cultivation as an Edwardian period kitchen garden including areas for trials and botanical collections such as dahlias as well as the glasshouse display collection of orchids and cacti.
The principal advantages of the glasshouse are the high level of light and the long life of glass.
THE lifting of a European ban on the sale of knobbly fruit and veg will have no impact on tomato specialist J Baarda's Billingham glasshouse operation.
 
 
 
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