My mom's friend was an enthausists for many years, but he had to give it up because of carpal tunnel syndrome he developed from being a chemist and bonsaiing. When he decided to give it up, he gave all but his most priced plants away to friends. He gave my mom several serissa, chinese elm, junipers, ginkos, azaleas, and arborvitaes. I don't quite remember how many because this was when I was much younger, more than five years ago, but when I got to the shed and see 20 big empty bonsai pots I get the idea.
My mom managed to kill most of them, with only 1 ginkgo, 1 serissa, 2 junipers, 1 arborvitae, and one orange surviving. Since I've taken an interest in bonsai, my mom let me take any that I wanted except for the orange-- oranges are good luck in Chinese culture, and my mom likes looking at the fruit. Most of the trees need a lot work, the junipers need some major restyling, I'll post pics of those later, but I did get one of the serissa today and I wanted to post that, there'll be more tomorrow.
I've since repotted the serissa since it hadn't been repotted in about 8 years since my mom got the tree and there was some root rot and slime mold, so that had to be taken care of, I'll post a picture of it now whenever I have time to take another picture
