2nd April to 2nd May 2010
Exhibition and sales
The innumerable colours of Japanese maple trees.
The very fine collection of Japanese maple trees belonging to the Survey Centre, Green Area Creation will be revealed in the setting of the big meadow. This is included in the park entrance ticket.
Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th April
Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd May
Japanese maples - Cultivation and culture
A talk recounting the history of maple trees with their different varieties and characteristics, and advice on how to cultivate them will be given by Benoît Choteau in the lecture room. Free entry.
3rd April to 2nd May
Re-potting and pruning maple trees. 
Every day at 3 p.m. educational work shops will teach the art of cultivating maple trees. The purchase of a "maple kit" gives you the right to participate in this workshop.

26 th April to 2nd May
Bonsaï pruning
Every day at 3 p.m. educational work shops will teach the art of pruning bonsai. The purchase of a "bonsaï kit" gives you the right to participate in this wokshop.
Benoît CHOTEAU
In 1978 Benoît Choteau acquired a huge rape (colza) field. With a great deal of work and enormous passion he transformed it into a plant nursery in which massive multicoloured clumps of trees and shrubs now grow, planted through the years.
Having trained as a landscape architect, and having acquired wide experience, in 1988 he was able to set out an approximately 50-are (1 are = 100 m x 100 m) arboretum in which various collections grow harmoniously side by side : Acer, Prunus, Euonymus, Quercus, Fagus, Magnolia, Malus Tilia, Aesculus, Liquidambar and son on.
In 1995, as there were too many plants, Benoît Choteau, as an established dendrologist, created a "wood park" to increase the numbers of the trees. In the park, plants are classed by genus, which makes it easier to verify the identity of the variety and to observe how plants adapt to our soils and climates. At present the "wook park" is composed of approximately 900 taxons and the collection has over 3,000 different plants.
In parallel with setting out plant nurseries, Benoît Choteau enjoys contact with plant lovers in exhibitions organised in Belgium and in France. He has won several prizes in Celles (near Tournai) and Courson (South of Paris) for the quality and presentation of his rare plants.
One particular tree variety has always held a special place in his plant nursery : it is not only a tree, it's a real passion, which Benoît Choteau has brought to share with us in this exhibition on JAPANESE MAPLE TREES