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The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit

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Space Garden is a one-third -scale model of one that was exhibited last week at the Venice Biennale exhibition in Italy .

The people who came up with Space Garden want to send a full-size version, stocked with real plants and seeds, to low Earth orbit within the next five to seven years .

The designers of Space Garden say it’s time orbital horticulture took a quantum leap.

Space Garden is a concept for a space-going garden that could be used to grow food in space.

The concept is designed by London -based design firm Millimetre and is for display only.

Space Garden's lobes shield plants at the center, behind their thick windows, from light.

When closed, the structure can open up to give the plants access to light.

Dixon , for one, has long experimented with barley seeds, sending many to orbit and back to Earth .

Griffiths says he would grow a strawberry plant that also has bright red petals.

If it's going all the way to space, it’s got to be extra pretty as well as edible.

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