Bonsai lover and cacti fan

Juniper chinensis. A good bonsai plant should have its head or apex bending gently forward, as though bowing to its owner. The plant should also have an arm on each side.

Trimming and pruning his bonsai plants gives H.L. Chang a sense of calmness and serenity.

The 67-year-old retiree and his wife, May, have transformed their garden into a blanket of green, with half allocated to Chang’s bonsai and garden plants, and the other half to May’s cactus