I have a lilac 3 feet high very nice round shape....... But with all
the rain we have had it sat in water for over a week it is now all
shriveld it looks totaly dead I have transplanted it out of the standing
water will it come back or should I give up?

jlr wrote:

I have a lilac 3 feet high very nice round shape....... But with all
the rain we have had it sat in water for over a week it is now all
shriveld it looks totaly dead I have transplanted it out of the standing
water will it come back or should I give up?

No expert here, but was it just limp in the water? or did it shrivel
after transplanting? If the latter, I would say it has transplant
shock.

If you didn't do too much root damage in transplanting, it should
survive -- but lilacs will take a LONG time to recover, so be patient.

Clearly, I don't know how bad the standing water was, or what the lilac
looked like when you made the decision, but the situation must have been
dire to do the transplant -- in which case you were facing possible loss
either way.