Well, my delivery girl is at least beautiful, if not magical and irresistible, so I can imagine the kinda compensation I would want.

No, chong, really, sorry. Did you inspect the plants? You would be surprised. After 3 weeks my Pahari Kela recovered in 3 cases (and would maybe in more, if it was just 3 days less, one pup struggled underground but then died).
Some of the plants might still be salvagable.
How many plants were there?