It’s spring, the season for all those bare tree branches to sprout gorgeous green leaves, for daffodils to pop up along Dupont Circle, for those of us with a green thumb to try and flex it in any way we can. For the past few years, Joe Carmack’s Garden District store on 14th Street has been one of those places ready to help city gardeners get primed with perfect plants for the season. The store’s arrival on 14th Street a few years back was one of the signs of the economic resurgence of the neighborhood, and provided a welcome alternative for green-thumbed city residents loath to make the trip to Home Depot.

Now, as reported last week in the Washington Business Journal, Carmack is looking at opening up a larger store either on H Street NE, Georgia Avenue NW or in Hyattsville. With all the talk of H Street redevelopment one has to wonder if the same neighborhood redevelopment that followed Carmack to 14th Street might visit him, and the neighborhood, on the H Street corridor.

But it won’t just be the new store that’s keeping Carmack busy: he’s also recently joined the ranks of D.C. small business entrepreneurs making it big on cable TV shows. He now gives gardening advice on Home & Garden Television’s Curb Appeal.