Rose slug eating the leaves for sure

Yes, rose slug which often occurs in poor-drainage spots, where rain-water accumulates. Rain water is acidic at pH 4.5, which THIN OUT leaves, depleting leaves of calcium thus more susceptible to rose slugs. Easy does it needs EXCELLENT DRAINAGE and a sandy soil person reported it as his best performer. That's why I shun from buying Easy Does it since I have slow-drainage dense clay.

Will move it to an area with better drainage. Will it survive? I hope it can recover in a better spot.

Just as a cautionary note, sometimes mixing the sand with clay can become cement like. I guess it depends on the type of clay you have.

Sand glues up with clay only when it's heated at extremely high temp., or sun-baked as in pottery. Even sun-baked pottery cannot be used for anything other than dry storage or decoration.

https://www.ehow.com/how_5858326_make-sun-baked-clay-pottery.html

I have tons of acidic rain here. I layered COARSE sand with clay when I did my brick border 20 years ago. Recently I took that brick border out, and the SAND WAS STILL FLUFFY, did not cement nor glue up with clay, same with the many planting holes I did with 1/2 clay and 1/2 sand for the past 20 years. I have high magnesium black-gumbo clay.

Oh you are luckier than i, thank god. I have areas of the yard that previous owners mixed sand and pea gravel with the clay in hopes to improve drainage.

Now there are areas that you can barely get a shovel into. It gets so frustrating.

Thank you for the info., will tell my neighbor to stop putting pea gravel at bottom for drainage. Pea gravel is the culprit. It's EXTREMELY alkaline and releases its alkalinity slowly to glue soil & make soil compact. I pH-tested coarse sand and it's slightly alkaline at pH 7.5 compared to my rock-hard clay at pH 7.7. The place where I threw some pea gravel on top, it's rock-hard below (like cement).

My own root Easy Does It is a very weak grower, is this a rose that does better grafted?

I grew an Easy Does It for years, and it was always a fairly weak grower, though the blooms were lovely. This rose was grafted. My opinion would be that an own root EDI would be even weaker. I think it needs to be grafted and receive some pampering. It's pretty cold sensitive, too. Diane

Thank you all. Great tips and feedback. Need to ge back into action and amend the soil.