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Phillip Watson, QVC's pretty face, plants himself in West Chester spreading charm and know-how

His real name is Henri Phillips Watson 3d, but he’s better known as Phillip Watson. Perhaps you’ve seen him on TV. For the last 17 years, he’s been on QVC, selling Cottage Farms roses, daylilies, heirloom tomatoes, peonies, and other crowd pleasers, which lately would include the sensational dwarf sterile butterfly bushes — dwarf so you can squeeze them into a tiny garden and sterile so they don’t seed all over the place. Watson is a pleaser of crowds himself, packing the lecture hall at the 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show, where he had the mostly middle-aged ladies laughing at his opening line that the weeklong event "doesn’t have that musty smell like your grandmother’s house anymore."

Garden pathways should be visually inviting, Watson says, with unusual materials and paving patterns and lovely plantings on both sides.
Garden pathways should be visually inviting, Watson says, with unusual materials and paving patterns and lovely plantings on both sides.Read more
    by Virginia A. Smith<br/>INQUIRER STAFF WRITER<br/> | Columnist
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