Xiamen Wanshi (Ten Thousand Rock) Botanical Garden of Gardening Plants is a botanical garden deliberately designed and built around Wanshi Reservoir. In the light of the needs of scientific research, more than 20 gardens of special varieties of plants and cultivation areas including a garden of pines and cedars, a garden of roses, a garden of palms, a shady shed, a plot for cultivating introduced varieties of plants, a garden of medicinal plants, a garden of large cactuses, a hall of flowers and an orchid nursery are arranged within the Botanical Garden in order. It is the home of over 4000 species of tropical and subtropical plants, including the so-called living fossil-met sequoias, ginkgoes and the three ornamental trees famous all over the world-golden larch grown in China, parasol pines from Japan and araucarias, as well as the rare cactuses. It is a garden worth visiting because it boasts numerous varieties of wonderful flowers and exotic trees giving forth fragrance all year round.