Last year there was a great flower show on many C. florida here. You might as well keep it and enjoy the years it looks good, shrug off the others.

Unless you bought a seedling, instead of a grafted specimen. That might take a long time to start blooming.

Although likely with most florida cultivars, anthracnose is by no means guaranteed. And it is more like a plant cancer rather than a heart attack :-) A slow and rather lingering decline and eventual death....not very sudden and not very likely to happen within the one year guarantee period.

Since you bought it a box store (!!), I'd guess you didn't pay all that much for it. So as previously advised, enjoy for as long as it looks good and then yank it if and when it starts to decline.

I agree. Enjoy while you can.

Taking it back and trying to explain it's not what you bought, to a box store employee, is not worth it.

With a wood chip mulch, I get a lot of Kousa seedlings.
Check under yours.
Mike

Sounds like leaving it in is for the best. I don't have high hopes for its chances of avoiding anthracnose--even my disease-resistant cultivars are showing signs. But it was a bang for the buck--costs less than a grocery store bouquet for a 6' tree. In the meantime I'll look for kousa seedlings.

Thanks all!