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Recently my garden flooded, how long can trees cope with soaked soil?

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Usually woody plants can survive waterlogged conditions for about 3 weeks before they start to suffer any permanent tissue damage. There can be quite a variation by plants to tolerating wet soil. Elm and Silver birch will fare better than trees such as Cherry and Mountain ash which appear OK but often die the following year.

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