Collections Etc 6ft Garden Plant Trellis, Green

I don't understand the reviews that indicated that this was hard to put together! It took my husband and I all of 15 - 20 minutes to assemble it and they even include an extra screw and nut, just in case. The screws aren't tiny, by any means. We received it a half an hour ago and it's already installed over our climbing rose. It looks very nice. No, it's not solid metal construction (enameled metal tubes) but for the price it exceeds my expectations.

After reading reviews I was hesitant to purchase this item let alone the two I needed. For the price I decided to give it a go. A couple things. 1. Assemble the inner rings first which will need to be placed on their side and pressed down on to latch the final two together. 2. The legs go on the outside. 3. Build it bottom up one set of rungs at a time for stability. 4. You will need a wrench to hold the nuts in place while you tighten the bolts. 5. Rule of thumb when assembling anything, tighten last.I haven’t received the second one. The second should be quicker and easier now that I have figured out the easiest way to put it all together. It can be done solo. In all it was a 25 minute job by myself.The instructions are picture only. Truthfully it’s not that complicated it just felt like it was upon first glance.I did run into the issue of my pot being just too small. I plan to address this with drilled holes in the pot and zip ties as the pots I am using are plastic. The piece is light weight which is a plus as I dropped strength training during the pandemic.Overall for the price I am satisfied and pleased I took the risk. My honeysuckle plants will be thrilled with their trellis.

There are no detailed instructions but assembly was easy to figure out from the pictures. It took about 20 minutes. Fitting some of the pieces together took a bit of effort and manipulation but it went together relatively easily. A bit on the flimsy side but I attached it to 4 garden stakes that I drove two feet into the ground and I think it will be sufficiently sturdy. I will spray paint it with Rustoleum to make sure the bolts don't rust.

I found the trellis easy to assemble and it looks pretty good. It is very lightweight - the main problem I’ve had is with it blowing over in the wind. The metal tubes it is constructed from are hollow and we have dense clay soil so it was impossible for me to get it deep enough in the ground to stop it blowing over. I’ve tried various things to get it to stay up in the wind but I’m limited as it has a vine growing on it. In future I would drive 4 pieces of iron rebar or something into the ground first and then put the trellis tubes over them to keep it up. Anyway, it isn’t damaged at all from the weather and I think it will last for some time so overall it’s decent for the price.

The manufacturing process for this product must be very inconsistent, because I (like some other reviewers) struggled to put this together. I required the help of a second person because the rings held too much tension despite keeping the bolts loose. I ended up using pliers to crimp the end of the last piece in each ring to help it slide together. I gave up on one of the rings when even crimping didn't work, and now I have only 2 of 3 tiers assembled. The whole ordeal took 1-2 hours. I almost threw the whole thing out in the middle of assembly, but I am stubborn.I recommend buying a different product. If you do still want to try your luck with this one, I recommend having a second person, a pair of pliers, and maybe some WD-40. The product itself is lightweight, but I imagine it would blow away in a storm if not tied down or deeply staked into the ground. I used zip ties to attach it to my porch railing just to be safe.

...parts like e and g which look like brass knuckles in the picture, don't worry. I would not have known how to install them anyway. I was able to assemble just fine without them. It did take awhile as I have arthritis in my hands. I had on hand and used a needle-nosed pliers, a crescent wrench, a phillips head screwdriver, a rubber mallet for my stakes and pipe wrench (the latter I used for a tight fit where the holes would not line up one time). I started assembly from the top. The four bottom straight pieces that go in the ground do not have holes on the sides on one end. Set those aside. If you want to make the whole thing shorter, then use these end pieces to finish it off sooner than you ordinarily would having four curved pieces and four straight pieces with holes on each end on the sides that you won't use then. It does seem tall but consider the end pieces go into the ground.When I used the needle nosed pliers, I used them to make the holes more even to thread the screws. Scrunching down the ends of the long pieces to make them slide into each other better is not a good plan. Just select a different piece and somehow it works. I used Sturdy Metal Garden Stakes 4 Ft Plastic Coated Steel Tube Plant Sticks, Pack of 25 available on Amazon that are easy to break in about 1' pieces so that I had four of those on hand. When it got to the point where I was about to install the last four pieces on the trellis that are to go into the ground (they have no holes on the sides on one end) I brought the trellis out and set it on the ground over my plant marking where the feet went. I then removed the trellis and pounded in my four stakes on those four places. My stakes are exactly the same diameter as the trellis poles.After I attached the last terminal parts of the trellis, I then removed the stakes which easily came out of the ground. I aligned the trellis legs over the holes and pushed them securely down into the ground a good 6 inches (the depth I had pounded the stakes in initially). I felt my unit was quite strong and secured the bolt/nut and screw holding the nut side with the wrench and tightening with the phillips head before I put it in the ground.