The history of the American Begonia Society is studded with creative hybridizers, who took the time to create something new and bring it forth in to the world of Begonia cultivars. The linked article is a summary of many of these gifted folks, written for The Begonian in 2017.
At any one point in ABS history you could find a different group of individuals, the artists of their time, flaring like fireworks and shooting new cultivars into the market. Fashion may dictate the type of begonias that are popular as one generation hands off to the next, but the need for artists who work, or play, in genetics stays the same.
