I recently got my order of roses from Pickering delivered, and they look very nice and healthy. However, several of the roses had already started putting out buds of new growth. They were in the dark, so the buds look white instead of green, and quite a few of the buds broke off when I separated the roses (I got almost 2 dozen of them packed in 1 box, so I guess this was inevitable).

Question #1: Are the roses going to suffer from having lost a few buds? and is there anything I can do to help make up for it? I don't want to shock with with fertilizer if they don't need it.

Question #2: Should I still hill up dirt around them when I plant them, or should I just treat them like a potted roses since they seem to be breaking dormancy? Also, this being the Pacific Northwest, we're getting lots of rain, almost no sun, and virtually zero evaporation, so I am not worried about the canes drying out.