Do I need a building permit for a Growing Dome in Texas?

It depends on where you are. Many Texas counties have limited or no permitting outside city limits; inside cities, and under HOAs, requirements are real, so call your building department early and tell them the footprint and that the structure is a greenhouse. We supply construction drawings and specifications for permit applications on request. Start with our building department guide.

How does a Growing Dome handle Texas summer heat?

Heat management is built in, not bolted on. Automated vents open on heat rather than grid power and exchange air all day, the dome's shape keeps air moving, and shade and airflow strategies for the hottest months are covered in the heating and cooling guide and our greenhouse cooling articles. A Texas summer is the season owners plan around, the way northern owners plan around January.

Do you deliver and install in Texas?

Every kit ships freight from our factory in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. You can build the dome yourself with the installation manual, or have it professionally installed; the West Texas Hab went up with a supervisor-plus-one crew working alongside the owners. The shipping page and the installation options page cover both paths.

Greenhouses for Sale in Texas

Growing Spaces has built the Growing Dome® greenhouse kit in Pagosa Springs, Colorado for more than 35 years, and more than 70 of them are installed across Texas. Heat that runs for months, hard freezes that arrive overnight, wind, dust, and hail test you at random.

One West Texas couple grows banana, citrus, and fig trees in a dome their children call the Hab.

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Growing Domes installed in Texas, as of July 2026.

Designed for fast extremes

Built in the Rocky Mountains, where weather turns in an afternoon, for a state where it turns overnight.

Built for Texas conditions

Texas is several climates with one shared trait: extremes arrive fast. Summers run hot for months statewide, and hard freezes can drop in overnight, as February 2021 proved from the Panhandle to the Gulf. West Texas adds wind and dust, the north and central corridor adds hail, and the coast adds humidity.

The Growing Dome design answers each of these, and its core systems run without grid power. Automated vents open on heat rather than electricity, so the dome sheds excess heat all summer and keeps working through an outage. The above-ground water tank absorbs daytime warmth and releases it after dark, which narrows the swing between a hot afternoon and a sudden cold night, and the undersoil air system carries warm air into the soil, where freezes do the most damage. The glazing has taken softball-sized hail undamaged at a Wyoming install, and for Panhandle and high plains sites the frame is the one we build for Rocky Mountain snow: the kit can be built to withstand loads of 120 pounds per square foot and more with slight modifications.

The design pages cover each system in depth: passive solar design, thermal mass, the undersoil system, and automated vents. For structural detail, see the weather resistant greenhouse kit page.

Bananas and figs in West Texas

In wild, windy West Texas, Kurt and Paula run a 33 foot Growing Dome their children call the Hab, growing banana, citrus, and fig trees where the landscape grows dust. They walked through all six sizes in Pagosa Springs before choosing, then had it built with a supervisor-plus-one install crew.

Read the West Texas story.

Two 42 foot domes at the West Texas Food Bank

The West Texas Food Bank's education center in Midland runs two 42 foot Growing Domes, one growing tropical plants and one desert natives, showing children and adults across 19 counties how food actually grows.

Read the food bank story. More Texas stories live in the Texas greenhouses archive.

Permits, heat, and logistics in Texas

The questions Texas buyers ask first.

Owners do; the Midland food bank keeps a tropical collection going in one of its 42 foot domes. Sudden hard freezes are the Texas risk that matters, and the dome's water tank and undersoil system store and move heat without grid power, which is exactly what a February 2021 style freeze tests. The heating and cooling guide walks through the numbers, and the climate calculator gives recommendations for your ZIP code.

Choosing your dome

Growing Domes come in six sizes, 15 to 42 feet across. The right one depends on what you want to grow, how much of the year you want to grow it, and your site. The greenhouse guide walks through the choice, the shop lists current kit pricing, and the comparison pages set the dome against other structures, starting with the gothic arch.

Plan a Texas greenhouse with an advisor

Tell us your county, site, and what you want to grow. We will help you size the dome, plan for sun and heat, and sort out permits and delivery before you commit to anything.

Talk with an advisor