Lovely find - lucky you.

The sedum kamtschaticum and the sedum middendorffianum are the same plant. Its the variety middendorffianum. Looks like a WINNER! It has the pinwheel leaves up the stem. And it flowers June-August. And its has the red stems with the yellow flowers with the red in them as they change. Its in a place with excellent drainage. And it has been doing fantastically there. Thank you again!! So much!! I am going to try to find something to stump you....:0) Have a great day! vina

Hi njtea, You had me going there for a minute with the photo of the cornelian cherry (cornus mas). But after looking at more photos of it (the fruit gave it away) I remembered that we had a couple of bushes in front of our old townhouse. It's definitely a spicebush. I just bought several bareroot plants because I liked the look of it so much. I haven't seen very many at all around the neighhood or neighboring towns but the Princeton U. campus has several nice specimens in full bloom. Apparently they come in several shades of yellow. Mostly the ones I've seen are a rich gold but there's one bush in Princeton that's a lighter yellow-green which is more to my liking but they are all quite striking and beautiful especially when there's not much else blooming this early. I also noticed that the magnolias on campus were just about ready to bloom and some of the stellas had actually opened a blossom or two. Our witchhazels are past bloom, I too love the scent but the winterhazel is starting to bloom now with it's long drupe of flowers. Thanks for suggesting the cornus mas

I think E. corollata is probably it, there is a lot of this plant growing in this area and I have photographed it often but in apparent later stages of growth; I think the unusual appearance of the flower and the overall shape of the plant is what threw me off but looking at some of my other E. corollata photos at the base of the plant, the leaf shape and habit seem to match this. I may try to confirm this later this spring and see if I can find some more plants in the same stage of growth. Thanks all.