My first impression is that this is very nice looking, seems to be made of good material and hopefully will work well for my plants. I am giving it only 3 stars at this point because I felt that the set up of the planter was terrible! TINY dark photos for the steps of the assembly (you could hardly identify the parts) and very few words to help you out. It is not clear at all how to put together the most important part - the water gauge. I finally figured it out after much frustration, but really, it could be made infinitely easier by some decent photos and step by step directions. Just a few parts so it SHOULD go together in a minute. The first step was "Rubber cork into red button", yet no cork was included, and no red button anywhere. Go figure. I have great hopes that nothing else will be wrong, because it was exactly the size, shape and color planter I have been looking for.