Im not who you are looking for, but if you cant plant 1000-5000 seeds a year, go for the pretty face...a face or shape that YOU like, not something you think somebody else is going to gush over, and then go for the good scapes and rust resistance among those. In the end, they are going to become your garden plants, and your best friends, enjoy the process and looking at them. and learning from them.
They are harder to find, but Tim Herrington breeds for rust resistance, and they take the heat, and they are great plants. Rust is at the bottom of my list of things I look for, but if I can get a plant I like and know it has good rust resistance....winner!
Next bloom season...you might not know it
, but your going to MECCA.
Im gunna get Leslie LaLambchop to talk to you too, just in case you want to go over and talk to Dan Hansen.