Assembling a GIANT Obelisk – Jardin Tower from Gardener’s Supply

We build the Jardin Tower from Gardener’s Supply on a rainy day in our backyard garden! This is a commanding statement piece which will hold any climbing or vining plant you can think of! What would you grow on it?

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Jardin Tower Link from Gardener’s Supply
https://www.gardeners.com/buy/jardin-tower/8612997.html
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look guys my loopin from seed these are the ones that I grew last year and only one showed up but I moved the plants up front uh to the front of the house and it has been the coolest thing to see their little um flowers coming up look at the shape of them and when you see them you know just start so tiny and then they start to become something like this knowing that the whole thing is going to open up in this blue purple flower is just amazing and then you get the bonus of this when it rains and it collects in the center of the fluet they’re like little diamonds uh on the petals and I just really love that so this is totally off topic but here’s my looping from seed hey guys good afternoon it’s Sunday afternoon May 5th it’s a very rainy raw day here today so it drove us into the garage to work on a project cuz we like to milk every minute out of every day that we possibly can we work like 16 hours a day but one of the things that we have not worked on was assembling our new Jardine jardan Jardine Tower from Gardener Supply we actually bought this several weeks ago and we never got a chance to assemble it um one we were ready to assemble it but they had a delay in picking the order they didn’t pull it even they didn’t even pick the order for like 2 weeks after we ordered it so we didn’t know what was happening by the time we got it we were so inundated with other chores outside that they’ve been sitting in the garage and hopefully there’s not a problem with them in packing so we’re just starting to assemble them now we don’t know what type of issues we’re going to run into but hopefully um they’ll go together well it’s a lot of um just rods threaded rods that get screwed into rings and then it has a very large top and this cage is big enough that it could really you can put a person in it so we’ll see how well it goes together and if I can keep Farmer John in a cage for a while but I’m not going to do that until I can get milk every minute of time out of him that I can to get projects done and then I’ll put them in the cage so our garage is is a disaster you guys this is like very difficult space to work in but one of the things we just started reading as we looked down online at all the different reviews used is that one of the main problems people had was with this Final on top and that it pops off really easy and now I’m seeing that it is actually screwed on here so and then this is the first part that you work on so it kind of opens up like so and then you have to screw together all of the different rods onto it and then this will go down into a ring so I can see why this will get tightened down when all of these rods get lined up so this is the first thing that we’re going to do all right so as I showed you you just have to get the um all of the rods that come down from the topper piece this is step one or a um and then you line up each each top pole with a hole in the first ring and then we’re going to send a rod up through the Bottom now this is really a twers job not because it’s heavy but just because it’s awkward so it’s going to be a little bit difficult for us to show you how it gets screwed in but just know that we’ll be sending the rods up from underneath this hole to meet into this portion here and that will be step one as shown here in the diagram see not hard it’s just a big giant cage so it takes more than one person okay you guys so you can see how we’re holding one end in uh this is the top piece and we’re just sending the thread through the bottom let do another one here for so we tightened up the uh the final lines up to each other and then once all these guys get straight then you can you can tighten this top down here the top to keep everything in place so uh you want to let it pivot at first and again it’s not hard it’s just it’s just a little awkward so I mean I guess you know one person can do it yeah I highly recommend um John put on some grippy gloves um because of the uh sending the the rod up into the the threaded portion to get connected it just needs a little bit of a grip so in order to get it uh put together secure so it doesn’t fall apart especially if you’re to grow a heavy vine on this you’re going to want to make sure that you have this whole thing threaded together nice and even look everybody it’s a flower and a cage right guys so this is the completion of step one so again you’re going to just allow your your your curved sections that sit inside of the final to um spin into place so that each bar lines up with the hole in the first r ring and then you thread a leg through it so now we’re going to do this um two or three more times and I think this Tower is like seven or eight ft tall so um yeah that’s it it’s just a matter of keeping it lined up it it is a little awkward and the threading is sometimes doesn’t cooperate but it’s not difficult it’s just a task I haven’t really been timing this you guys but it doesn’t take that long once you get your groove and getting this thing to lay down on its side getting it all assembled you’ll you’ll see just how many sections it goes um and again you just line up the threaded Rod to the ring and then it goes through to the other side and connects as far as the material goes I mean anything that’s metal outside has the potential to rust it seems like it might have some kind of a powder coating and the threading and the joint seem to be of some kind of a plastic material inside you know how well this is going to hold up in our Winters I don’t really know this is the first time we bought anything from Gardener Supply um so while we’re remaining optimistic because we wanted to have some big um climbing aggressive Vining plants in here some ideas are changing as Farmer John threads this in initially we wanted to have fragrant Jasmine um but after smelling it at Laurel Oak and I can attach that video for you um if you haven’t seen it the fragrance Jasmine was just so fragrant smell like baby powder um I realized I wouldn’t be able to hack that in the yard so we’re also hoping to find some traditionally fragranced honeysuckle to grow up these These are mainly for not only to be you know add structure to the Garden um they will go to complement other structural statuary type items we’ll be putting in um but we wanted something tall enough for the hummingbirds when they come that they they could reach some beautiful trumpet shaped flowers I mean a a tower this big seven or 8T tall could easily hold you know mandavilla banilla um you know climbing rose climbing roses yeah this could really handle anything so I may do a combination of just annual Cardinal Vine in here and some Claus if I can’t find what I want I’m really hoping for the honeysuckle but we’re trying to avoid anything that’s too thirsty and we’re trying to avoid anything that could have come with a whole set of other diseases that could Spore and go through the garden so we’re still doing our research on that evidently Jasmine uh comes with its share of problems so um but I guess anything does so all right Farmer John has one more section to go and then we we will try to uh erect it out in the backyard once we find our place so after the next ring that goes on the last set of poles on on the bottom will have spikes to go into the ground so let’s have a look at those spiked ends as we put them in so they’re not like super spiky too spiky but it’s probably going to take some maneuvering to get this down to the ground so if you have any hard ground that you’re putting this into you may need to drive a start a starter nail down or a pin or a steak or something just so that you know after you get your steak lined up in the position that you want them in it will help you to drive this down because with it being I think it’s 7 at tall again I’m not really sure um you know they might need just a little bit of help to be able to ease down into that hole and you want to get them down far enough that this thing is going to be up and rigid because with a good gust of wind and a heavy Vine it could go down quite easily if you don’t get it in the ground right are you good no okay go ahead and stop there you go there you go good good perfect wow you guys this thing is huge it probably would have helped if um oh sorry I got you moving around we you’re on a tripod there’s Farmer John in the cage I told you it was a mansiz cage it’s huge I’m very excited so like like I said this was bought to hold a much larger vining plant um but if you you know if you install this properly and have everything screwed in real nice and well get it your you make sure that your feet are driven down here the spikes are driven down into the ground nice and level um you know this should hold up with some pretty big winds so we’re trying to figure out where exactly we’re going to put it still so we think we have an idea but our ideas changed and so now we’re going off on an adventure to see how it works well guys our plans actually changed so we have moved this around so many times let me let me just show you this this is big enough for me to fit inside of it so I still don’t know what kind of plant I’m definitely putting in it um it seems pretty sturdy what kind of review do I want to give it um I would say it was fairly easy to put together um it is very large and I do think that it is definitely um a good candidate to hold something aggressive and heavy like a climbing rose or a climbing CL a big Claus I mean imagine this covered with some kind kind of showy flowers something fragrant in the garden um you know great for flanking an entryway grer off in the distance the butterflies are going to love whatever it is that we decide to grow on this we just um we just don’t know where we’re going to put it we we know where we want it turn you around again we want uh one to come behind me here in this corner and then one all the way in the back because this whole entire straight area here is supposed to become um a lavender border I’m growing lavender so but that’s a ways off and we haven’t finished 27 other projects so it’s all just taking a little bit too long and um we got a little bit ahead of ourselves when we saw these things and we bought them kind of on a whim I don’t really regret it I just wish that I had laid out you know planned my time a little bit more efficiently before I started something like this and we rushed into assembling them today well I rushed into to it because we’ve been sitting on them for a while and it took me to read certain reviews of people having problems with that little ballal on top um to say okay maybe we need to open this um Jardine Tower from Gardener Supply soon in case we have problems we can go ahead and contact them so but anyway I do think it’s a sturdy product how long it’s going to last in weather conditions I don’t really know it was very very expensive and we have two of them so I’m going to go ahead and put a link in the description for you below that you can click on if you’re interested in it um but it was easy if it’s in your budget and you want to get something that can hold up an aggressive Vine or aggressive Rose there’s one of your Solutions so anyway guys I hope that helped you if you found it helpful or interesting please give this video a thumbs up and if you haven’t subscribed please subscribe to our Channel it really does help us to move along through the algorithm so anyway guys thanks for spending more time with us again love chatting with you I hope to see you in the next video