In the Garden - A Garden Where Foliage Eclipses Flowers - NYTimes.com

• ANYTHING GOES Nancy Ondra’s garden in Pennsburg, Penn.

  By ANNE RAVER

  Published: July 31, 2008

• There’s an experimental, anything-goes feeling about Hayefield — from the soft cedars allowed to flourish in the field, to the alpacas, Duncan and Daniel, grazing in the pasture, and the 1,200-square-foot log house made of Eastern white pine.
• “Who needs flowers?” That question, which opens “Foliage: Astonishing Color and Texture, Beyond Flowers,” the book Ms. Ondra published last year, with photographs by Rob Cardillo, came back to me as I admired the combination.
• Ms. Ondra’s boisterous one-acre garden surrounds the little house, which she designed herself, with its wide, wraparound porch — a fine, shady place for viewing the plants and the fields beyond. She settled here in 2001, after years of editing and writing garden books for Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pa., and a stint running Pendragon Perennials, the rare-plants nursery she had created on a fifth of an acre outside of her house there and run for five years.