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I like 'em! - If you're expecting a hundred dollar trellis for the low, low price of fifteen bucks, well, then, you're weird.
I'll do the math for you first. It clearly states in the description that the height of the trellis is 72 inches and that INCLUDES the 8 inch ground stake(s). This means that the trellis is, in fact, 64 inches tall once you install it into the ground. It says that. Up there. Where the description is. To the right of the photo. You assemble it and, for a brief and glorious time, you will have a 72 inch tall trellis that you can proudly walk around your yard with telling the birds and the squirrels, "Ha HA! Look at me! I have a 72 inch tall trellis!" and then, eventually, you're going to want to put it in the ground and eight of those inches will disappear when you do. Hopefully the birds and the squirrels will be busy doing other things when that happens.
You will have to assemble it. You will have to slightly push-pull one or more of the pokey parts to line up with the holey parts (or vice-versa, it's your choice) but nothing extreme in my experience. Exercise caution when doing this so as to not pinch some part of your person in between the two metal pieces, not that I would know this from experience or anything. Ahem. Screw down the two screws to hold the three parts in place. They're just pressure screws so screw them tight using an appropriately sized phillips head screwdriver. Then you spread out the feet so that the two become four and tighten down that nut to hold the positioning in place. I think it's nice that it's adjustable so that you can work around an existing plant that may not accommodate the right angle X formation. Find a suitable location and place them in the ground. How you do this depends entirely upon the type of ground you have. Me? I just gently stepped on each of the trellis' feet in turn until it was all the way in.
Is it the sturdiest trellis I have ever owned? Nope.
Is it the sturdiest trellis fifteen dollars can buy? I'm guessing so but I don't know of any other fifteen dollar trellises.
I used the ones I bought - I bought two of them - for well established and rather beefy climbing roses so the roses themselves help provide stability for the trellises. They've been in the ground for 24 hours and they've stayed in the ground for 24 hours. In that 24 hours we've had some 25mph winds and they haven't moved at all - even with the weight of the roses on them.
I'm here to order four more and just took a pause to write a review.
May 2016 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase