Boy howdy,...does this ever need bumping!

Those are some crazy planting instructions, John! I have done nothing out of the ordinary with my Freelander roses, and they've all done very well. MAGMA is a big bloom machine. MASQUERADE did take an extra yr to get really good blooms, but the plant is tall and healthy. GOLDEN FREELANDER is in a big pot and bloomed like a weed in its first season last yr. MONDIALE is also in a pot and grows to waaay over 6ft. Blooms aren't quite as frequent, but they last forever. FANTASIA is the only one that hasn't bloomed that great. But it grows very tall just like the rest of them. They are all very sturdy, stout plants that tend to grow bolt upright. Got SAFARI last yr and it's a little shorter for its first season, but the blooms were gorgeous! I have some more coming from Palatine next week. LAGUNA, CHARMANT, BONANZA and BEVERLY. And I recently received from Pickering CHERRY FREELANDER. I'm not going to do anything different than my usual planting. If they don't do that well, I may try cutting the stems and bringing them inside instead of leaving them on the bush. That might encourage more branching and more blooms.

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Toured Home Depot and came back with a "reamer" and a 3lb drilling hammer. I got the elevator bolt through the hole, but because of other problems (misread instructions) I had to uninstall and reinstall the bolt. The reinstalled bolt does not sit perfectly flush now, so now I am looking for help on some type of hard drying epoxy/resin filler to put in the small gap between the elevator bolt head and the steel door. Thanks again?