Plastic sheeting is used as a covering to help let in plenty of light while keeping the cold out. The greenhouse is also ... has us wanting to throw up a dome or two in our own backyard.

or connections between the plastic panels, tend to leak. In 1988, the Missouri Botanical Garden closed its huge geodesic greenhouse, the Climatron, when the Plexiglas panels in the dome became ...

Glass is a great choice for a geodesic dome greenhouse! In 1988, the Missouri Botanical Garden tore all 3,625 plastic panels from its geodesic greenhouse, the Climatron, and replaced them with glass.