IN BRIEF
Name Fuchsgrube.
What Private woodland-style garden.
Where Mülheim, western Germany.
Size Ten acres.
Soil Sandy, well-drained, acidic.
Climate Oceanic climate, frequent rain in summer.
Hardiness zone USDA 8.
When Linda Zimmermann first set foot on the grounds of her Fuchsgrube garden, she was put off. “I did not want to live in a cemetery,” she says, referring to the impression she had upon seeing the thicket of over-mature trees and large rhododendrons that came right up to the house, spreading darkness and a claustrophobic feeling. It's hard to imagine this scene now, 20 years later, as
