The kit from National Greenhouse Co. arrived right on schedule, in mid-September. It surprised me, because from reading other peoples' accounts I had resigned myself to the probability that it would be late. Had a problem when the truck driver refused to bring his eighteen-wheeler down my dirt road, but after a bit of a commotion, I was able to round up enough help to get the kit to my house.

I had been very curious about how one packages a greenhouse for shipping, and for those of you who might share this curiosity, here's how it's done. There were only two items:

This 20-foot long bundle contained the sill, the ridge, and other long pieces of the frame. The wrapping was tattered, as you can see, and some of the pieces had been scraped.
The second item included everything else: First, the polycarbonate glazing panels, stacked on a skid;
boxes of hardware and bundles of smaller items were stacked on top of the glazing (here I've unpacked one of the boxes to check its contents);
and finally, everything was covered by this wooden box, standing on its side here.