Thanks! My cemetery style plantings are the result of making use of opportunities to acquire trees and shrubs with no predetermined plan. :-) But I think I'm achieving what I want overall even though it caused me to move a couple of the plantings. Thanks for the pruning advice. The bloom looked more developed a couple days before I dug it out. It's hard to plan with so few large trees to work with. I located the Annabelle out away from the house because if I would've put it in the river rock border in the front, that generally only gets a few hours of early morning then a few before sunset and I wanted to make sure it had enough sun to bloom profusely. Our hot season is short up here and hot spells along with hot nights are not frequent. I don't mind watering as it's part of living where the soil is sand with silt and a few percent of clay in various areas. It's just a 'yard size' by most standards. Here is where the Annabelle is located east side of the driveway. The trees are on the North side so even when the increase in size there should still be sun albeit they will give morning and afternoon shadows someday. The summer sun rises above the maroon house in the upper left side of the picture. Almost directly in the northeast.

Could be ech hot papaya... they change colors from the start to the end

I'd like to see a fully open flower first. Leaves look more like azalea while buds look very gardenia-like. If it is an azalea, it is not going to be very happy for very long indoors. They make very poor houseplants.

I do have August Moon though it’s in the back yard and this one’s in the front yard. But when I cut expired flowers stalks down, I carry a large pot to place them in. It’s possible I carried an AM flower out front and dropped it and perhaps seed fell where it landed…. I did read that it’s fertile. Since it’s new to me, it’s best to see how it develops. I wouldn’t rely too much on vein pair counts as it’s not mature and Schmid says they can vary by one or two. Thanks for everyone’s help! Hopefully with maturity it will become more identifiable. debra