On April 29 & 30, '99, I visited Mr.Yano's garden "Gansekitei". He is a dinner cameraman and studies and collects maples. He is cultivating & managing his about 1000 pots of maples, which are not only Japanese natural species but also almost all Japanese traditional cultivars. He said to me that it takes about 2 hours for him to give them water every day. Colors of young leaves of various kinds of cultivars in spring is somewhat different from a coloring atmosphere in autumn, but I was impressed by such fresh bright colors as combinations of reddish, yellowish and greenish colors. I really found another colorful world of maples in spring, too.

Let me show you a bit.