The greens vary from pale yellow green to deep emerald green and the reds from brick-red to almost black red. The maples are also valued in the summer garden because of their beautiful habits and the graceful way they move in the breeze, seeming almost to dance.

If you scrape away all the white and black paint, you'd see tons and tons of emerald green.

There is a yellow one that won't accept a black one, that won't accept a red one, that won't accept a white one.

Follow the yellow brick road.

We didn't care if you were white, black, green, yellow or polka-dotted. We just wanted to know where your heart was.

The beautiful contorted shapes that the branches of the weeping maples bring to the winter garden and the beautiful winter silhouettes of all the maples add fine texture and interest. Add to all of this the brilliant fall foliage for which the Japanese maples are noted and gardeners can have an ever changing palette of color all year long.