Oh, I see. These are transplants. That's a whole different thing. I can understand why you are taking a lot of care with them.
Also, I just take for granted that so many things grow well here in Central CA. I guess that is not the case in other locals.
Where we are was the alluvial shallows of a glacial pond once upon a time.
The leftover silt is littered with boulders, layers of clay, and sometimes ‘black dirt’.
(Onion country around the corner from me.)
Drainage is a bit of a trick, the clay isn’t pottery grade, but it doesn’t drain either.
Pretty darn close to useless, and you have to do horrible things to it to make it useful.
We have thirty two roses total.
Some we still have to move to this location from the old place.
*sigh*
Third shift makes life SO fun.