Are you watering enough? Did the plants come out of a shaded retail setting and then get stuck into a hot and sunny planting site?

I honestly don't hold out much hope for the Buttercups and Anemones. If they've been in the ground for five weeks and were in bud when planted they've pretty much bloomed as long as they are going to. Both are spring bloomers which go dormant in summer. I wouldn't expend any more time on them.

@Embothrium I did water twice every week before the rain started. The leaves are looking good. Yes I did buy from the shade section of the nursery but where I have them is mostly shade but well lit. They get about 1-2 hrs of direct sunlight.

floral_uk, that’s a bummer. They look beautiful. I saw one of them listed as perennial, I forgot which one. Will they come back next spring in zone 9b? Of the 4 Gerbera daisies I bought last year as annuals, 2 of them survived the winter and still putting out plenty of flowers. If either the Buttercups or Anemones will come back next year I’m thinking it’s worth giving the soil a boost. I will also use the same for both Gerbera and African daisies. If I’m going that route should I just fertilize the daisies and hold out until next spring for the Buttercups and Anemones if they survive?

Oh btw, they are producing buds but they are deformed.

Both are perennial in the right conditions but they are also ephemeral. Gerberas are also perennial. Not quite sure what species you are calling African daisy. Maybe Osteospermum? Personally I wouldn't fertilise any of them.

Pictures of your plants would be useful to help you further.

Yes, Osteospermum. These 2 pictures are of the daisies. The pink is the one that’s going strong and not much of a problem except aphids have started attacking almost all my plants which wasn’t an issue last year. Orange is not doing as well as the pink. The leaves are sparse and eaten by I don’t know what. I don’t see anything on the plant except aphids, no snail trail. May be something that comes at night?

The second picture shows the African daisies. Yellow is dull probably because they are old flowers and the white has lost all the flowers that where there when I bought from the nursery. There are buds but no new flowers. Is it just slow getting adjusted to the new environment?

You can see the Anemones in the second row. After constantly knocking the aphids out last 2-3 days they look better. They only have 2-3 flowers each, may be that’s normal idk and the petals are not as big and deeply cupped as they were at the nursery. This is my first time growing these, so may be I have to set my expectations right?

Here are the deformed buttercups. You can see some are shaped differently and some are very small. There is only 1 flower that is big per plant, rest of them look significantly smaller and they die like that.

I can't see anything deformed about those buttercups. Unfortunately top down photos are very difficult to get information from and the first pictures are too far away and in shade so I can't see any detail. But overall I don't see anything untoward in any of the plants. They all look perfectly normal considering they were transplanted when in bloom.

I don't see any evidence of aphids. If there is distortion, and I can't really see any other than the usual weirdness of massively congested double blooms, it could just be aborted buds due to transplanting in full growth.

The long shot pictures are to give an idea of the difference in the number of blooms in the daisies. Orange doesn’t have as many blooms and leaves as pink, yellow is dull and white has very few flowers. Daisies are not deformed so didn’t take a picture up close.

As for the buttercups, the pink in the first close up picture is deformed with the petals growing in cone shape and one of the buds is also deformed. I didn’t capture the aphids up close because I’m constantly knocking them off and they are now present only inside the petals which is really hard to get a picture of. In the red and white buttercups only one red flower is big and the rest in the plant are all small. Same with yellow, 2 are big 2 are small.

Annpat, yes I think aphids are causing the buds and flowers to deform. After knocking them out twice a day, anemones show improvement. The petals are not very deep but they don’t look sick anymore. They are even attacking my pink daisies now. I think the buds they got to earlier are opening with smaller petals and/or dull color. Could the same have happened to the buttercups that bloomed small?

I tried to get a picture of a new bud opening small and the petals are curled up next to a good one and you can also see one that is almost completely white for some reason.

Honestly, there's really nothing much wrong with those flowers. The bleaching and any other problems, such as they are, are most likely a result of transplanting in full growth from nursery conditions to your garden. They take a while to settle. These are living things and they won't be totally uniform, nor conform to a standard. Your yellow Osteospermums will not necessarily be just a yellow version of the pink. Nor will the orange Gerberas be identical to the pink. They're different cultivars. Some will be more vigorous than others.

These pink daisies have not been transplanted in full growth and they have been in the ground since last spring, so there must be a different reason for the bleaching.

I was comparing the orange with pink as they are the same variety and have been in the ground for same duration in same sun, water, soil and other conditions, so I don't know why orange is always putting out less flowers than pink.

I'm not expecting the yellow to be a yellow version of the pink. I'm aware they are different varieties. Yellow was much brighter in color before and now they have faded. I don't see any new flowers coming in both yellow and white osteospermums which were planted this spring. Could be that they are taking time to adjust.

I would remove ALL the stones from your bed. I've noticed that places here that use stone for mulch have very unhealthy plants trying to grow. I think the rock holds heat

and doesn't allow for the normal temperature for the soil.