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Birmingham, Alabama
• The Hugh and Bobbe Kaul Wildflower Garden is a seven-acre naturalistic rock garden showcasing native wildflowers. It is located in a former sandstone quarry on the northern edge of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Lane Park. John Manion is the curator. The garden's plantings showcase Alabama's diverse woodland flora in a series of vignettes taking advantage of variations in soils, shade and slope. More than 400 species of native trees, shrubs, vines and flowers, including native azaleas, are viewable in the garden.
Torreya Guardians has documented that Jack Johnston distributed 40 seeds to the garden, autumn of 2015.
Primary seed donor is Atlanta Botanical Garden. Fred Bess writes:
Senior Horticulturalist I received 2 rather mature Torreya in 3-gallon pots donated from a local gardener named Claude Rhea. I don't know where he got them or who grew them but he was kind enough to let us have them and they were planted last Fall. These now form a healthy grove of 4 Torreya, all with healthy leaders. There are another 2 in a different location in the garden that are also in fine shape.
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