Wat Phra Chetuphon Vimolmangklararm Rajwaramahaviharn

Khao Mor , (Model Hill) or rock garden with decorative plants. King Rama lll created 24 gardens/hills around the monastery. The big and small rocks were taken from the rock garden in the Grand Palace, which was built in the reign of King Rama ll. These model hills, both on the top and at the bottom, are decorated with many plants, Chinese rock stupas and pillars, Chinese rockeries and animal rock starues. Each was named after a distinguished plant grown in the garden, for example Khao Asoke,Khao Samor Khao Tonpeep, Khao Kem, Khao Sadao,

Khao Tonsai, Khao Pikul, Khao Ruesidadton and Khao Sivalueng (‘Khao' means ‘hill'). Most plants were grown in stead.

Decorative Plants and Herbal Gardenwas built up to meet the order of King Rama III at the same time of the great edition of medical science. After the edition, the medical text inscriptions were posted in Sala Rai. Many kinds of perennial grown in Khao Mor (Model Hill) were herbs and plants both in literature and from the Buddha's biography such as myrobalan, jambolan, margosa, Bodhi tree, banyan tree. There are also flowering plants and green-leaf plants.

Dwarfed trees from persimmon and uricaceae plants grown in many basins in this monastery are very well maintained as observed by the outer coverings and dark rough branches which show their growth in many years ago since the reign of King Rama I and III. Looking at these many Thai style dwarfed trees, you will get an amazing pleasure.