Vzz-- Thanks for the detailed information and intelligent questions. York Rose is correct about rose slugs on the mini rose. If you don't find the worms underneath, they have already been picked off by wasps. The Double Delight looks fine to me. The gnarly new leaves may have been injured by aphids or another small insect-- this is probably trivial damage. Get some web images of aphids; those on eastern roses are usually green or peach colored. Just wipe them off with your fingers, or you can ignore them short of total encrustation. The dark shading on the left side may be spray burn from the soap. Using soap or oil on roses in hot weather is iffy. I don't see any signs of waterlogging. I would fill the pot to within 1" of the rim with more soil and a bark mulch of 1-1/2". The rose will appreciate the increased rooting depth. The bottom 1-2" in pots tends to stay too wet for roots to use. I would water pots as soon as there is slight drying under the mulch. The soil needs to be quite moist. When you irrigate, water until there is drainage from the holes, possibly two gallons at a time depending on the pot size. Don't use a pot saucer. Pots here don't need daily watering, but I can't say about your conditions with hot all-day sun. It's good that your pot is a pale color. Possibly your rose might use 5 gal. per week in hot weather, less in spring or fall. After you use up the Bloom Buster, switch to regular, rose, or acid Miracle Gro or a cheaper equivalent. Roses use 3x as much nitrogen as phosphate, so the BB formula makes no sense.

The brilliant green beetles are "fig beetles" ... native SW species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figeater_beetle And yes, that OMGITSBIG!!!!! wasp thingy is a cicada killer. Impressively huge, but single-minded about hunting and hauling cicadas back to their nests. they are not likely to sting unless you grab it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_grandis

The leaf-footed bug in the nymph stage will tightly cluster as a family group to feed on a variety of plants including passionvine (shown above), pecans, ornamentals, citrus, as well as tomatoes. I killed one on my plumerias this morning. Here is a link that might be useful:

Thank you so much. They're species specific so at least now I know they won't eat everything.