Is this trellis put up correctly?

[NewspaperTaxis]

The guy who made an excellent job of the fence helpfully put up this trellis that I'd bought from Wilko. Looks great.

Thing is, is it the right way round? Shouldn't the vertical strips be the ones up against the wall? The way it is, I can't quite see how the clematis is meant to creep behind anything much, if you see what I mean.

Shouldn't the horizontal strips be on the outside, to set it back from the wall? Or am I overthinking this?
Or is the trellis I bought all wrong - the metal logo would normally be on the front? Is it badly designed?

I can see myself planting something and only then figuring I haven't given it anything decent to climb.

On this YouTube clip it's the vertical strips are right up against the wall:

I don't think it really matters. Usually the staples or fixings are on the side you put against the wall.

You would usually put it with verticals against the wall, yes. What an odd way to badge the trellis.

Clematis won't care tbh, it'll have no trouble either way. More feeble climbers would.

Shame he didn't put the screws through the crossings, it'd be easy to flip then - instead it'll need refitting and new holes drilled. Or don't bother as it'll work okay as-is.

I have trellis.
DH made it, attached the same way as yours.
It’s lovely and my honeysuckles have no trouble at all climbing it.

When DH puts up trellis he puts wooden spacers where he screws it into the wall, so there is a space between the wall and trellis.

Many years ago he had a student summer job with a landscape gardener, something stuck in his memory.😁

That's a good point - if Taxis has a collection of things that would make good spacers, about 1cm deep, then undoing the trellis, adding the spacers then popping it back on would be a good plan and only take a few minutes. If not, really don't worry about it.

OH put up a piece of willow climbing frame and yes put up a vertical battery

As others have said, the textbook way to install trellis is to attach battens to the wall and then attach the trellis to that (and, if you're going for broke, you attach the trellis with hinges at the bottom so that you can lower it for maintenance, pairing etc). The extra air circulation is supposed to help keep the plants healthy.

As it is, I don't think it matters a great deal. You'll probably need to tie the clematis in while it's getting established and you should be able to do that with the trellis as it is now.

Many thanks for your responses on this. Will get a clematis next time it is the right time to plant one.