Roses, like most plants, prefer to grow in an evenly moist soil but not a wet soil. Plants cannot uptake soil nutrients in the absence of moisture so allowing a soil to dry completely can be detrimental to the plant.

That soil is too heavy with organic material at 50 percent. Optimal for most plants is about 6 to 8 percent. However, if you mix that with the soil you already had it may be okay.

Are these raised beds?

What is your native soil? Clay, Sand? Loam?

Why did you think you needed to replace that native soil?

Roses like water. If the bed is staying too wet, just stop watering it. I keep potted roses on a schedule where I refill the baby pool about twice a week. The roses sit in water for a day or two, then are out of water for a day, then get more water. They absolutely love it. Would they like it as much if I watered them every day? Not if I left them in the baby pool. But I have no intention of watering them every day.

You seem overly concerned about the color. Get yourself some sunglasses, and look at the bed through colored lenses. That should fix that problem.

The highest priority among gardeners in our area is simultaneous moisture retention and good drainage, a quality our native soils do not offer. Based on the ingredients you list, I'd say you purchased a fine medium for roses (by "granite" do you mean decomposed granite or granite sand?). 6 to 8 percent organic matter may be the optimum range in cooler climates. When growing roses in Central Texas, 50% is not at all excessive. By the end of our long growing season, much if not all of that organic matter will be expended, which means you have a critical, never-ending task ahead of you if you want your roses to flourish: replenishing the organic matter on a regular basis. The traditional guideline for roses is 8 inches well-rotted cow manure [source: Texas Rose Rustlers].

Do you mind if I ask from whom you bought this soil? Garden-Ville, Geo Growers? Other?

I bought it from a place in Buda, Tx called Advanced Organic Materials. It is a raised bed...in my yard it's basically solid rock under the surface. Most holes take me at least a half an hour, working with a spud bar to bust up the rock. So I was very excited to have a raised bed. The few places where it's not rock it's kind of clay like. Thanks for the responses, I just don't want my roses to die.

No worries. Based on your description, it sounds like your raised bed resembles a wading pool because the organic matter is not thoroughly wetted. If you turn on the garden hose at full blast, the water cannot percolate into the soil because the dry organic matter forms a barrier through which the water cannot pass. Visualize the wetting process as using an eye dropper to saturate a sponge. Add a trickle at the lowest possible flow rate until the water starts to accumulate near the surface. Turn off the hose. Let the organic matter absorb the water. Repeat until the water no longer stands. At 50% organic matter, the process may take a while.