Anchor Freestanding Trellis

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Hello! I built this trellis 2 years ago and I admittedly made some mistakes that I knew I’d regret later when building it..I didn’t want to spend $600 for the project so I opted for 2x4s instead of 4x4 posts and cheap pine for the trellis material, lowering the cost to around $300 total. I anchored the posts into the pots with concrete thinking that’d be enough to withstand wind. It was for a while…Fast forward 2 years, and we are experiencing really bad wind storms lately that are not common...

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Originally published on March 23, 2026. Curated by Construction News.

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