Hello Lary,
Lantana is basically a butterfly plant but hummers will use it some. I have a Lantana camara 'Dallas Red' that is used a bit by the hummers and I grow it b/c I like it. Morning glories are also used but not as much as salvias. If you are looking for a annual vine for hummers, I think cypress vine would be a better choice. I have not used wave petunias but I have grown regular petunias, wild petunias and million bells. Petunias got very little notice, the wild petunias faired a little better as did the million bells but not anything I would break my neck to get.

Penny

I've never seen them around morning glories or petunias, but the hummingbird MOTHs love the petunias, and in fact, it is a host plant for some of the humminbird moths, so I grow it for them.

Honeysuckle and hardy hibiscus (reds) are great hummingbird attracting plants.

Susan

Luckily I have had luck with Petunia's and Morning Glory. I don't know what kind of Petunia's, sorry. I buy them every year, mostly because I really like them, and luckily my hummers do too. However, I'm not doing the Morning Glory again. I've taken Penny's suggestion, and purchased a Coral Honeysuckle. Good luck!! Christy

A note on the hardy Hibiscus--I have "Fireball" which is a rich red color, with huge dinnerplate blossoms, but no nectar! I saw a young hummingbird hover around one of the blossoms, and then lose interest. The plant had nothing to offer nectarwise, but it did bloom like crazy and looked great. There may be other hardy Hibiscus that are full of nectar, but Fireball wasn't.

Susan, which varieties of hardy Hibiscus have you tried that worked? Fireball was a wash with the hummers.

Last year, they ignored my mass of hybrid red Petunias, but I don't know about wave petunias.

Cardinal Climber is a hybrid vine similar to Cypress Vine. It looks more like a morning glory than Cypress Vine although the leaves are much different from morning glory, and the flowers are much smaller. It is definitely attractive to the hummers. I found it to be more vigorous than Cypress Vine.

I have no experience with Lantana.

I've grown "wave petunias" several times and I've never seen a hummer at them. I thought it was the fact that they a groundspreaders, but one year I put one in a hanging basket and I never saw one there either. I've had red ones, white ones and bicolor ones. They are a nice intensely-flowering plant for covering an area, but don't seem to attract hummers.

I've never seen them at the petunias or morning glory, even the red ones. They LOVE the scarlet runner bean and it is fun for the kids to grow which is a plus. They used the bean plant more then the honeysuckle when it was in bloom.

I never saw a hummingbird near our blue morning glory or pink petunias last year. They do love the coral honeysuckle and impatiens.

Kristen, I grow Texas Star hibiscus (that is the common name). It is also called Swamp Mallow, but will do okay in regular soil, too. It is actually a species hibiscus that has nectar, called hibiscus coccineus. The foliage looks like an illegal plant, which is different that most hibiscus. The flowers are loaded and the hummers and the Cloudless Sulphur butterflies just love it. It is hardy to zone 6a.

I would imagine there is more nectar available in a species plant than one that had some of the nectar bred out as a cultivar.

These are beautiful plants, and the foliage is just as nice as the flowers.

I am also trying a new vine that is supposed to attract hummers called Antigonon. It has the tubular red/orange flowers, too. It is an annual here, but I want to try it anyway.

Susan

Thanks, Susan. With so many hardier plants, that Hibiscus may be marginal for me, since we're almost zone 5. It sounds wonderful, though.

I've never heard of Antigonon. I'll have to look it up. I'm trying some new vines also. For the first time, I've got some Eccremocarpus scaber seedlings (=Chilean Glory Vine), and seedlings of Mina lobata. I'm also continuing with my usual Cardinal Climber and Cypress vines. Cardinal Climber does better for me than Cypress vine, and the hummingbirds do seem to like it.

Yes, I'm really going vine crazy this year! I've also got several new things on order--the hardy vine Lonicera sempervirens "Alabama Crimson," and non-hardy Manettia bicolor, and a red Mandevilla. If all goes well, there will be vines clambering everywhere, and lots of hungry hummingbirds to sample them.

I'm selling tomato seedlings locally to pay for all of this!

Kristin I grew Mini Lobata last year and it doesn't bloom until October when all the hummers are gone!! It is really lovely but by then there aren't any left to enjoy it! So to me it was a disappointment!

Ghoghunter, did you start your Mina lobata indoors early from seed, or plant the seeds directly outside? Mine were started last month, so I'm hoping against hope that they've gotten enough of a head start to bloom earlier. I was hoping for August or so. That's about the same time my Cardinal Climbers start to get into full swing, and I know that these two are relatives.

If you're right, and they don't start blooming for me until October, that will definitely be a disappointment! I didn't know that. You'd think with it being pretty much an annual vine that you could get it going earlier by giving it a headstart indoors. October?! Man, that's a long time. Who would have thought it would be so.

Let me know if you started them indoors or sowed them directly outdoors, and when. Did yours also get lots of sun? If by some chance they didn't get enough, maybe that slowed them down. Just hoping, here. Thanks for the heads up, though.

I'll probably try them anyway, but at least I was warned. Thanks.

Hi Larry,
I live in SE Michigan also.
I use old fashion Zinnia, Swamp & Common Milkweed, Mexican Milkweed, Salvia (red and blue) Tithonia (need to get in early, as they bloom late) They also love my sedums.
Connie

Here in Texas we have two lantanas. One is camara and the other horrida which is our native lantana. I have both of them and the hummers will hardly touch the horrida which is a an orange/red/yellow color. They seem to like the camara (pink/yellow) much more.
One of our native honeysuckle plants which is the coral honeysuckle the hummers absolutely love! If you can buy it, you will not regret it! It is a hummingbird magnet! The more you have, the better! The best thing about it is that it is NOT invasive, or so little you can't even tell.
Another plant that is really popular is any kind of Salvia Greggii...any color will work, but red is their absolute favorite. As long as it is a tube flower, they will go to it.
I live in the city and have all these plants and feeders, but not enough shrubery. I am just trying to find any other way to attract more. I have 1-2, but never more than that.
I am about to put coral honeysuckle a along our fence line. I'm hoping that will encourage them.