1. The flower above seems to be rotting or something? Not quite sure. I don't know if it fried in the sun and then got wet from the thunder storm. It didn't look like that this morning.

2. Most of my plants are leaning, and that might be my fault for not planting them level.

3. Lastly, lots of the stems are falling over, like they can't support themselves. Is this normal?

There is a lot of clay in the ground, which I mixed with garden soil, clay breaker, manure and compost. Could that be an issue?

Okay, I think that's it. : /

What Austins did you buy and what zone are you in?

Is that your native soil or some kind of planting mix you used?

Has it rained a lot?

The blooms look like rain(balling), transplant shock or just old. But the leaning makes me think that maybe the soil you planted them in is not heavy enough or meant for garden uses.

Did you just purchase these and plant them or have they been in the ground for a while? If they are new plants you might be able to carefully dig them back up and straighten them. They do look like they're falling over. Are you sure you packed the soil all around them so there are no air pockets in it. Or, like Kippy suggests, is the soil too light weight, like a soil-less mix, to be used in the ground?

As for the weak stems there could be a couple of reasons. If these are new young plants they may need more time to mature before the canes will harden off enough to hold up those large, heavy blooms. But there are also some roses that do tend to have weak necks or blooms that "nod" downward. And many of those happen to be Austins. You can stake and tie them up or put a short trellis behind them to tie the canes unto if you'd like. Some Austins tend to get quite tall anyway and end up needing to be trellissed.

Over-amending the soil is not a good idea. Most soil is good enough to grow good roses.

Weather affects flower life. They only last so long. Then you cut them off and new ones grow.

There really isn't anything wrong with the roses. As they get bigger the canes will be able to take the weight.,

Some of the blooms have been open since Sunday/Monday. However, I bought a few of those plants on Saturday, and they were already blooming in their pots.
But now that I think of it, there has been lots of rain lately and the days are between 80-90 degrees.

How long have the blooms been open? Are these just old blooms that need to be dead headed? Have you had severe heat lately? Or excessive rain? Any extremes in weather can cause blooms to deteriorate quickly.

You and Kippy brought up great points about the soil, I didn't pack it down! Since the plants are fairly new, I can pull them out and try again this weekend.

I'll go ahead and get them trellised. Good thinking. Thanks for everything!

You're right, they are planted pretty high. I dug as far down as I could, but the clay and large rocks halted the process. I figured I would just cover the roots as best as I could. I'm not totally sure if that will work. Now I'm a little nervous about the soil. There was mostly dense clay where I planted them, that's why I added all the amendments.

KingCobb: Thanks so much for your input. That makes me feel a lot better.

NickJoseph: Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that! I didn't really think about it that way. Ideally I'd want them all to be successful (of course), but I guess if I have a few that make it, I can be happy with that.

cjrosaphile: Your rose is beautiful! Okay, I see this will be purely a trial and error issue. I'll see how this Summer goes!

NickJoseph: Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that! I didn't really think about it that way. Ideally I'd want them all to be successful (of course), but I guess if I have a few that make it, I can be happy with that.