Furious , anybody any advice other than a stiff drink?

Their flower bud will have formed last year, and this year's growth will have formed the "energy-store" and flower bud for next year. So I think there is a risk that they will have been sufficiently weakened that they fail to make an appearance next year or, in terms of compensation, are a "significantly diminished display" next year as a consequence of the length of time they were flooded. But you can cross that bridge if you get to it

Glad you have got some recompense for the aggro ... but it would be better if they just strung-up these incompetent people. Maybe everyone's new UKIP councillors will be better?!!

 

Just thinking that cluless could very well be my new Hero

 

So glad that it wasn't a distaster for your plants and for you Silu. It has been extremely interesting and valuable to us all to read this thread though the past months and it does go to show the strentgh and durability of our plants and what an amazingly close bunch of people we are here on Gardeners Corner.
I wish you a bright new season ahead,
Jenny

 

At long last after all the battling you finally have and end to it Silu. It's good to hear that a lot of your plants have survived and let's hope Kristen is wrong about next year. I wonder whether it would be worthwhile letting your solicitor know what Kristen has suggested, because if they do fail next year the chances are you won't be able to claim then.

It's been an informative read for us, although you've done the suffering we have all gained from it, thank you.

 

Excellent news. I'm glad its all sorted. Hopefully the council have learnt from this too, and might try a bit harder to make fewer mistakes now they realise that they can't just do whatever they want without being held to account.

 

Hi Silu so glad the damage was not as bad as you feared, and hope the drainage has been sorted out properly, so you don`t have to experience such floods again, unfortunately such extremes of weather are seeming to be something we will have to get used to.