Pauline and Peter Enticott were to have been delivering a consignment of flowering Flanders poppies to Te Ahu in Kaitaia today, in time for tomorrow's opening of its Anzac commemorative display, but that wasn't looking likely yesterday.
Sunday's heavy rain, which fell while the couple were in Auckland, devastated the
plants they had grown at their nursery, Lake Ngatu Plantations, leaving them drooping and all but devoid of blooms.
The seeds were imported from Europe, and a dummy run last spring suggested all would go well.
"They were brilliant, for about two weeks," Pauline said.
"The flowers (which only last one day) just kept coming. And these ones were just luscious last week."
