Welcome to Albuquerque!!! Not totally sure about the technical part of your question - but I would plant them asap here since it gets hot fast in the spring and most woody plants do best planted in Fall/Winter. There are not any restrictions on bringing plants into NM, so if you pick an indirect way, you should be fine (NV-UT-NM should work). Good Luck and Welcome..... John R in ABQ

Yes, It is transplant shock and the 85 degrees we had. Yes it is from water from the sprinkler. The leaves can't be wet for more than 6 hours. That was an unusual stretch of weather we had. Yes, you have a little black spot I see on a few leaves. Welcome to the world of roses in the northeast. Your roses look good! Try WHYY " you bet your garden " online . Look at the (section menu) button " a to z garden answers" . This is Mike McGrath from Philadelphia. This is the garden expert in the northeast. Your roses are from a hybridizer man Will Radler from Wisconsin. You can make them work fine where you live. The lower leaves yellowing is a sign of too much water. Is it possible you over watered?

Heere another favorite Flower Girl this one I got from Amity's Roses back when they were an all own root nursery. I've it for 12 years or more. In all that time she has never had a spot or mildew also apparently immune to anthracnose. She is normally a bit more upright I gave her too much nitrogen last year. Also spent to much time growing rather than flowering as much as normal. Won't do that again. Next to her is one of several gladiolus that I have had nearly as long. This is it's third time moved. Moved it right before our first wretched polar vortex winter and it lived. These are summer glads that should not be even close to hardy, I never dig them up to store them. They always come back even when the ground freezes below the bulb. Trust me here as it turns out glads have an amazing survival skill. I dug a clump a few years ago as it wasn't performing like it should. Well it was a giant stack of bulbs. When the bulb froze it would grow a new one on top so there was always the top couple still producing green leaves. Maybe glads always grow this way I don't know. All I need to do is take off the top bulb and replant about 8 inches deep and its starts the whole again. It was a stack of ten bulbs. One for each year it was planted. Sorry that was so long especially if you don't like glads.

IME, Knock Outs are extremely prone to canker issues. So they should not be mulched for the winter. If they accumulate trees leaves, try and get those out.