At the ribbon cutting ceremony last year for Roots + Fire Water, Homewood Mayor Rich Hofeld asked if the owners, Denice Rhodes and Amanda Battles, would offer help to people who tend to kill houseplants.
It turns out he wasn’t the only one with that question.
As the mother-daughter team celebrated the botanical shop’s first anniversary on Saturday, July 1, Battles explained that professional plant care services have become a key part of the business.


