Your roses look to be about 1/2 dead at this time. The watering for container roses is insufficient for newly planted bare roots. If the containers have good drainage, you should be watering them about 2-3 times a week. You say you used a 2:1 mix of potting soil and perlite. Potting soil should be planting mix and less of the perlite, if any. Roses need a sandy loam growing environment. Potting mix is for houseplants, not garden plants. Cut off the dead ends of the bushes with sharp bypass shears to 1/4 inch about the new growth or a burgundy bud-eye. The cane damage is canker dieback and is often found on bare roots that are stressed for water. The ceramic containers are about the right size, I think. They should be about 24" x 24" by 30" deep for a large rose to grow to mature size in two years. Rose bushes are frost-tolerant; immature rose leaves and blooms are not. Remove any damaged leafsets. If possible the roses need to be in rising sun until about 12N in the summer then can be shaded from the afternoon sun. Roses need at least 4-6 hours of early sun in order to thrive. Too much sun and they'll bake in the container. Too little sun and they'll have twiggy growth without much bloom. Hope this information helps, Jeannie Cochell, Master Rosarian, Phoenix Rose Society

I'd second the Paradise mention due to how strong the red tinge is, I have two Blue Girl's and they definitely don't take on a two tone hue. Neptune sometimes has a mild two tone, but still mostly lavender for me.

Hi Kday. What climate are you growing the roses in? Warm like California or colder and with more weather patterns like the Midwest? Iceberg can easily get 6 feet here (the non climbing version). The climbing Icebergs can easily become ginormous here. I love them, so it's good. But I'm just saying your climate may make the growing conditions different. :-) My Blue Girls are just a few months old and are already almost 6 feet. They're grafted, but still! I have Blue Girl along a fence and will be adding trellises. Some Icebergs I have on obelisks. Some I have as bushes. Iceberg doesn't necessarily need any kind of support here. The climbing iceberg definitely needs some sort of arbor or trellis to climb. Blue Girl seems to be better managed with a trellis in my yard, even though it's not technically a climber. But that may be different where you are. Can you keep them in pots and watch them for a little while to figure it out? I love that you bought en masse. I think large groupings look fantastic!

ANY change in growing conditions will affect the blooms. Weather, soil, water or sunlight makes a difference. You brought the rose home from the nursery and changed those conditions drastically. The rose responded. As for the quick change, each one of those buds developed at a different time. Any changes in conditions during that formation makes the difference. If the earlier buds formed when it was very hot or dry and the newer ones formed when it was cooler and wetter that would make them different. And in roses, like Chicago Peace, that are very changeable anyway it can make a great difference.