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surface water? If so maybe a covering of sharp sand to soak it all up! then once cleared and the weather calmed down dig it in?
if not maybe turning the bed with sand etc..
Hi Chris,
What sort of ground is the tree planted in?
Are you sat on clay in your area or similar hard non-porous ground conditions or is it sandy or chalky?
unfortunately, the ground may never drain properly no matter what you do. It's only 2 years old, dig it up and start again. I'd suggest digging a really deep hole and refill with a nice well-draining soil mix and then try replanting it there again.
transplant it somewhere else? higher ground?
This isn't really a good time to judge whether the drainage is sufficient - even reasonably well drained areas are pooling as there is simply nowhere for the water to go. Is there an issue over the rest of the year? How has the plant established so far? A few weeks of winter wet isn't necessarily going to be terminal. Extended periods of waterlogging during the growing season is far more of a problem.
If you really do need to do something about it, then a young tree like that can be dug up perfectly happily, and replanted in a nice free draining mix on a slight mound so that the base of the stem/trunk is nice and proud of the surrounding level - in my experience it is being planted slightly too deep that does for trees, esoecially in places with poor drainage.