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Article: Whatever you do, don't mention the Dome. . . This week the extraordinary Eden project opens. The mail had an exclusive preview.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2001
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Byline: ROBERT HARDMAN
THE butterflies are just starting to learn their way around. The heliconid thinks it is in its native South America. The beautiful, hissing owl butterfly believes it's in the jungle, too. They have no idea that they are in a converted china clay quarry in rainy Cornwall. But then, nor do the 80,000 plants taking root in one of the most ambitious new buildings in Britain.
Come Saturday, when the Eden Project opens to the public, the rest of us will be able to pretend that we, too, are in a rainforest and not in a series of gargantuan, steaming bubbles a few miles off the A390 near St Austell. For the moment, we are not quite in ...