Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Hummer friendly vines for the shade., 1 by Flicker

Flicker wrote:
You are doing all of this for just ruby throats? How many do you get? Your list of plants is super!! One plant that works very well for hummers is abutilon. especially the old bell shaped species that makes a tall plant covered with blooms.(photo) I am looking for abutilon Nabob--solid red, 5 ft tall, lots of nectar--makes a nice wide stand. Everything that I grow would die in your winter.
We have some wintering hummers here-rufous, broad tailed, black chinned, calliope, buff bellied, etc.--these are birds too light weight to survuve migrating so they stay and try to gain weight. After a hard frost there are no more flowers for them to drink from. We MUST keep out feeders or they will starve. One shrub that blooms in January in the bitter cold is lonicera fragrantissima-winter blooming honeysuckle. It has lots of nectar when nothing else is blooming.