When you get them outside take the trays off the bottoms of the cups too. Those trays are holding water so the pots don't drain freely. The soil in the bottom is probably too wet because of it. Get some one gallon nursery pots. Most local nurseries will have them and they're cheap. Carefully repot them without disturbing the existing root balls in good potting soil. Trim off any die back on the canes and any dead leaves. Take them outside and put them in full sun, in a well protected place. You're in a cold zone and it's early yet so you may have to do the in and out routine for a bit because of frosts. Put them up on something so the drainage holes are free to work properly. Keep them evenly watered but not drowning and do not fertilize them. Then be patient. As long as the canes remain green and do not shrivel they'll be OK. It may take some weeks for them to start to grow on top but in the meantime the roots will be growing below to support them.

Couldn't tell you about azaeleas since I don't know if they respond the way roses do, but about the roses, they are just suffering from a little transplant shock. Just pluck off and destroy the yellow leaves and wait for about a month or so to see what the roses do. By the way, I wasn't clear if you meant the roses are NOW planted in containers or in the ground. Either way, they need good drainage (and plenty of sun) or they will get yellow leaves that fall off. If your drainage is good, then it may be that you are watering them too much--or if they are in containers, that they are setting on trays that retain the water, which is too much for the plants. Other things can cause yellowing leaves also--like under-watering! But if you are like most new rose owners, you are more likely over-doing the care and watering too much as a result. But you will have to determine whether your soil is moist or very dry. I still think it is mostly transplant shock. Let us know how it's going in about a month--OK? Kate

Sounds very much like rose slug larvae damage, to me. Here are a couple of links to threads about rose slugs found by doing a search on this forum with some interesting information. There may be other threads on the Antique Rose Forum. http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/roses/msg1113121915397.html http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/roses/msg042021559569.html http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/roses/msg0512455712090.html Smiles, Lyn

No fertilizer? Pot is large; other roses thriving in your pot soil recipe. That eliminates everything but drainage. Maybe Peach Swirl needs a different pot soil formula--like a high quality potting soil (Black Gold, for example) instead of compost. What's in your compost? Any chance of herbicide contamination in the compost (though leaves don't look like Round Up damage). Diane