RobinSeeds said:Davisson and Todd are my favorite hybridizers.
Hmmm... Never heard of them... I'll have to check them out.
I have a lot of Ginny Pearce introductions and seedlings in my garden. It seems to me Ginny won't introduce a plant unless it meets her requirements. Many of her plants just had monster years for me, blooming over 5 weeks, despite our bad winter and spring.
And Paul Owen was the first real hybridizer I ordered from when I was starting, and his plants do great for me. A lot of Paul's make good parents and are heavily represented in my seedling beds.
I've been working on season extenders, and Margo Reed and Jim Murphy have a lot of nice plants for that, along with the Darrow's from Olallie.
And I like what James did there listing some older ones. Al Goldner intros and unregistered plants are great performers for me, particularly Goldner's Bouquet and Honolulu Fruit (unreg).
I haven't dedicated enough effort to it, yet, but I want to collect more early Tets (60's) from people like Robert Griesbach who was from Park Ridge, IL and worked out of DePaul University. Also Orville Fay, who was from Northbrook, IL, also around me. Brother Charles Reckamp was a monk at The Society of the Divine Word in Techny, IL, also in my back yard. I have had the good fortune to collect 8 of his introductions or those introduced by Roy Klehm of Song Sparrow, who deserves props for his own work, as well as care-taking Reckamp's legacy.
I kind of went on and on, but I was a history minor and in a lot of ways the hybridizers are as important as the blooms to me.
... oh, and a quick look at my plant list reminds me that I actually do have a plant or two or 30 from Judy Davisson.

I only have four from Steve Todd, and but I've made his genetics a major part of my seedling beds.