We purchased the Bellerose because of the size and design. It has everything I needed for seed starting and extending the growing season. For the money the quality of the wood and fittings is great. It went together relatively easy and two people can definitely assemble this greenhouse. It is a great addition to our yard and I can't wait until Spring to start growing! I am overwintering herbs and lavender in pots to see how far I can push the envelope! Well done Backyard Discovery!

We get very high winds and this greenhouse can handle it! It is sturdy and looks much better than similarly priced plastic greenhouses. The directions were easy to follow, though took us longer than the directions stated, about two weeks with mainly one person working. we had issues with the door handle and their support immediately sent us a replacement

We found every aspect of the greenhouse to be spot on. The directions, the materials, pre-drilled holes, milling, hardware,venting system, and on... were extremely well done and of the highest quakity.. Backyard discovery hits it out of the park on the Bellecose Greenhouse!!!

Just finished building this unit. One person with occasional help took 10 days. The materials and craftsmanship were first rate. Plenty of extra parts included and instructions were straightforward and easy to follow. Very happy with the finished project!

This greenhouse is the real deal. Quality pieces that go together easily with clear instructions. It looks great and went beyond my expectations of buying a kit greenhouse. I was most pleasantly surprised when after a 90mph straight line wind event destroyed my property the greenhouse stood unscathed!

This took me a couple months to assemble. Definitely the foundation was the most difficult and time-consuming part of the project. There aren't instructions for that, so be ready to do a little research if you're unfamiliar. We looked up gravel shed foundations. The passive ventilation system was not enough to cool it where I live, so I added a misting system. Adding lights soon since it's getting darker earlier and earlier where I live. I love this greenhouse! It's beautiful, it's fun! I wish they'd had the XL version when I bought mine in the spring. I haven't really had the chance to use it yet because I got it for houseplants and it's already starting to get too cold at night where I live, but I'm very excited for next spring! The quality of the fasteners, hardware, and wood was fantastic. It didn't feel like it should be as affordable as it all was. I'm a technical writer as my job and I was impressed by the physical instruction manual (they are accurate, the pictures are almost always very clear, with great angles selected to get the most information across), but you do have to be a little on your guard with them. Sometimes, if you weren't really paying attention, you could do a step that looked very similar to a previous one and not realize there was a subtle change, like one part was upside down now. So you might end up doing it wrong while being very confident you were doing it right. (If whoever does the instructions reads this, you could add warnings that the orientation of a part is different from previous similar steps.) So yeah, pay careful attention to each step, and especially to any red text. And look for addendums before you get started and tuck them into the manual! You will need two physically strong people to do the roof. I (a somewhat wimpy lady in her early thirties) was not able to contribute much with some of the roof assembly steps. If I didn't have two strong folks to help me I could not have finished this project.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This greenhouse is super spacious. There is plenty of room for plants on the shelves as well as standing potted plants. It doesn’t get too hot when you are inside with the ventilation and the ability to open up windows and door. The added pergola adds such a nice touch to the overall look. Definitely recommend!

We absolutely love our Bellerose 11 x 13 greenhouse! It’s beautiful and great quality, sturdy, squares up nicely, had plenty of extra hardware, and has some nice features such as the shelving, the back wall for hooks, the exhaust fan and the hose hook up. We definitely compared lots of different options before purchasing, and we feel like this one gave us the best size and quality for the money. And in the end, it was well worth it to go with cedar. Although it’s quite a long assembly manual, it’s very detailed and doable if you just take it step-by-step. They provide an online video tutorial, but we actually just preferred the paper manual. Just pay attention to the pilot holes and the notes in red and you won’t have any issues. All in all the hardware is quality and each piece was marked well. There was only a handful of times where the pilot holes didn’t lineup perfectly. But nothing that caused any major problems. Get the roof sections squared was a little challenging, but wr expected that to be the case. We recommend using a square throughout assembly of each section to help ensure that the whole thing will be in square at the end. My husband and I assembled this together and it took us a total of 45 hours over the course of a week. We are very detailed people and my husband tends to take things slowly when assembling to make sure there are no mistakes. So there could definitely be people out there who could do it quicker than we did. Those 45 hours included moving the boxes from our driveway to the backyard location, and also opening the boxes and inventorying everything. Just those two things took 3-4 hours, but it was an important part of the process and made things go quicker later. We highly recommend laying out all of the cedar alphabetically for ease of finding each piece during the building process. We also did the same for the hardware. There is a lot of it, so you’ll definitely want to order it numerically. We used one of the large cardboard boxes to lay out all of the hardware numerically. And we were also able to write on the cardboard to label the top of each column. For example 100s, 200s etc. since each bag of hardware is labeled with a number. That way we knew exactly where to go when we had to find a certain piece. It was a definite timesaver in the end. One other thing that we found to be helpful was for one of us to gather the pieces required for the next step while the other one was assembling the parts in the previous step. Teamwork makes the dream work! ;) Side note: we decided to have a concrete pad poured as the base, with a trench drain down the middle for drainage. We poured the pad and additional 12 inches in both length and width as compared to the footprint of the greenhouse. If you go this route be sure to check the exact specs because it’s not exactly 11 x 13 (it’s 11’6” x 13’11’). And you’ll want to decide if you want the pergola to be on the concrete pad or not. We opted for not, and we will just put small concrete footers under the posts of the pergola. We also just wanted to note that we purchased our own 2 x 4 cedar planter for the center since there was so much room in there. We also purchased some string lights for the perimeter and hanging pots for the back wall. So you will see these things in our photos, but they did not come with the greenhouse. Bottom line, we highly recommend this greenhouse and can’t wait to start using it.

We installed the XL greenhouse recently. For most homeowners this is far far too much to take on and best left to pro's. I would expect two young ambitious homeowners to need 10-15 weekends for foundation work, wood sealing, assembly, andfinishing touches. I felt this kit was overall very well made and the precision the kit is made at (e.g. pre-drilled holes, notches etc.) is astonishing. I'm not a fan of the poly panel taping it required (why not sealed panes?) as moisture can get in and fog the panels. I felt the fasteners were well made except for the metal roof screws which are terrible and window latches are akward. I'm not a fan of how the roof was flashed especially where poly roof panels meet metal. I felt the kit would benefit from gutters/rain barrel option and the fan/thermostat a solar option. Despite the criticisms this kit is awesome overall and if you're crazy ambitious get one.

I purchased the Bellerose 11 x 7 Greenhouse for my wife as a birthday gift. What an amazing experience. The order process, the price, and the quality of the product was off the scale. I was able to work a few hours a day and complete the entire project in a week. The instructions and related videos allowed me to easily complete building the greenhouse and my wife was blown away. It is now her favorite place. What a joy this project was and any future purchase of other structures, gazebos, pergolas, swings, etc will be with Backyard Discovery. Every board, every bolt, every screw was the very best and was better quality than expected. They even included extra hardware for each type just in case. Again, what a pleasure this experience was and I look forward to my next Backyard Discovery project. Thanks Wes