my coral honeysuckle gets the most hummer attention and it blooms constantly. Crossvine will get mentioned here, too.
J.D.

Another annual vine, Ipomeae x multifida, or Cardinal Climber has tubular red flowers that the hummers love and would do well in that location. Also check out Antigonon leptopus (Chinese Love Vine - perennial vine, red to hot pink flowers); and Eccremocarpus scaber (Chilean Glory Vine - red to orange tubular flowers, perennial only to zone 8.

A white cypress vine intertwining with the red Cardinal Climber would be gorgeous! My hummers love the white, too. It is an annual, too, that will probably reseed for you.

You might also consider passion vines, especially the Blue Crown Passion Vine, Passiflora caerulea. It would be root hardy for you, and my hummers absolutely love it!

Susan

Susan
I know you get much colder than we do in the Dallas area. Id caerulea a winter evergreen for you? It surprised me that it is here...even this winter. It is my new favorite vine. More mannerly than incarnata.

cynthia

I'm planning on growing the coral honeysuckle this year based on what I've read.
The hummers don't pay much attention to my red cypress vines.
They love trumpet vines, but I hate them because of how aggressive they are, so I try to keep my chopped down.
I'm thinking I may try one in a container.
My Antigonon leptopus (coral vine) doesn't bloom until October.

The hummers give little attention to the trumpet vines - the species that is so aggressive. They were on my neighbor's property but I have one that I now cultivate and try to keep within bounds. If I cut off the seed pods (up to 1' long and loaded with seeds), it helps a lot. But my neighbor doesn't do his, so I still end up with seedlings that are very difficult to remove. They have tenacious roots even from a very small size.

P. caerulea dies back to the roots each year, but the hummers really love it. I have 'Lavendar Lady' which has some incarnata parentage, but isn't near as aggressive and the blooms are gorgeous and fragrant. The Gulf Fritillary butterflies use the Passion Vines as a host plant, so if you don't mind caterpillars all over your vines, you will also enjoy those gorgeous orange and silver butterflies. It also dies back to the roots every year.

I have the white cypress vine and the hummers really love it, as do the Cloudless Sulphur butterflies.

I have the yellow flowering honeysuckle, Lonicera flava, a native to the U.S. that doesn't get out of hand. It was here when I moved in 11 years ago, and trained up a large post at the corner of my lathe attached to my house. It really resembles more of a tree form. The hummers like it, as do other birds because of the tangled vines they can hide in. It is also a host plant for the beautiful little Snowberry Clearwing sphinx moth that I raise by hand and release. Honeysuckle is one of their host plants. I hang my hummer feeder from the lathe so that the hummers have a nice perching area. About 3' away, I hang a suet feeder hung for my rotting bananas and the Question Mark, Hackberry and Tawny Emperors, Red Admirals, and Mourning Cloak butterflies feed on this. I also have Hackberry trees and Elm trees, so the QMs, HEs, and TEs, use them as a host plant, and I grow False Nettle (non-stinging) for the Red Admirals to lay eggs on. So that entire area is very productive LOL! I have had up to 20 butterflies feeding at one time on the bananas. The bananas also draw the tiny fruit flies that the hummers also eat. Lots of activity in this area between the hummingbirds and the butterflies. I've also had the little day flying sphinx moths feed on this fruit - so fascinating to watch.

Susan

Susan I am enthralled with your description of your butterfly Eden.

Do you just squeeze a whole banana into the suet feeder? Do you peel it and either way, how long can a ripe to rotting banana last? I assume you are talking about one of those square wire feeders with a latch that we put suet cakes in...right?

We have sphinx moths here. I see them most on my white datura. Or course, they like to eat tomato plants. We have yellow honeysuckle growing through a hedge. I had no idea it was so loved.

I did watch a mama squirrel give a piece of what I think was honeysuckle vine to each of her two juveniles. It was such a tender moment. She carefully gave a separate section to each. She looked into the little faces and was very loving...definitely a special treat. Then she convinced each to follow her up high in the pecan tree to the new next she'd built.