HIGHLIGHTBY KAREN NITKIN For Howard MagazineAmy Poff, owner of Hallowed Ground, trims plants in an outdoor area. The store sells a variety of plant containers, below. PHOTOS BYBARBARA HADDOCK TAYLORTaking rootGarden-themed store is a natural next stepHallowed Ground, which opened in a former Oella church inJune, sells plants and planting accessories like pots and trowels;as well as jewelry, candles and other items with botanical themes.It has a small nursery and classroom space where owner AmyPoff plans to offer classes in plant-related topics like making terrariums, seasonal wreaths, or kokodama — growing a decorativeplant in a moss-covered ball of soil.“It’s important to me to have a space that feels like a community,” said Poff, 47, who lives in Marriottsville. “I always wanted tohave a store that had a teaching space. I just joke with everybodythat it took me until my late 40s to do it.”Poff grew up in Catonsville, in a “big house with a big gardenand parents who embraced farming,” she said. They grew vegetables and flowers on their acre and a half, and Poff has warmmemories of eating fresh peas, straight from the earth.Her mother Pegg Poff, an art, theater and special educationteacher, is also a fiber artist who grew goldenrod, pokeberriesand other plants to use as natural dyes. Her father, Bill, is an16| Fall 2023 | howardmagazine.com
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