The botanical artist Makoto Azuma took his avant-garde floral art a step further by launching his work into the stratosphere.

Titled Exbiotanica, Azuma and his crew, along with help from JP Aerospace, launched “Shiki” (a Japanese white pine) and an untitled arrangement of flowers, into space using a helium balloon.

Not entirely shockingly, comparisons have been made to Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpice Laputa: Castle in the Sky.

Might need a bigger bonsai for that, though.

Makoto Azuma via Spoon-Tamago.