Customer Reviews

The Garden Trellis: Designs to Build and Vines to Cultivate

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This book provides some measured drawings and information about what types of plants work with trelises. The plant information is good and the drawings are decent, however, they do leave some important measurements out. I have built two trelises for family and friends and they LOVED them. If you can get by with just the basics then this book is useful.

This is a very nice book with excellent illustrations and descriptions of different climbing vines that can be used on a trellis. It also includes pictures of nine trellises that you can build yourself, with the dimensions for each one. A background in woodworking is helpful. The instructions tell you what materials, tools, and supplies are needed, but does not go into detail about the actual construction. Since I have never done woodworking before, I had to get help from friends. I also referred to the Readers Digest "New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual". I was really pleased at how nice my first trellis turned out. I am getting ready to build another one. The hard part is choosing which trellis pattern I want to use next.

I PURCHASED THIS BOOK LOOKING FOR TRELLIS DESIGNS. WAS GREATLY DISAPPOINTED NOT ONLY IN THE QUANTITY BUT ALSO IN THE QUALITY. SAVE YOUR MONEY.

GREAT book, if you like to grow vines, or are investigating to add to your garden. One of my standard - go - to books for new vines or a new trellis when needed. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Very reasonable price too. Would make a great gift for your friends who garden :-) Especially if they are the "DIY" type. Would also be great for kids to make a trellis, for flowers or fruits or veggies. Say, age 10 & up?

I am ordering this for a creative guy who likes to garden & build. I checked it out from the local library because of the plant information and was immediately impressed with the simple but artistic color illustrations of plants. They reminded me of the old style journals some gardeners used to keep a few generations ago - with personal drawings or watercolors in the margins. Very lovely. For that alone, I would like to own the book (perhaps I'll order two). The trellis illustrations seemed clear, but I can't comment on that section as I did not spend much time reading the instructions.