How to Create a Habitat for Hummingbirds

My best hummingbird plant is a perennial flowering vine called Coral Honeysuckle. Found one in the woods and propagated from it. Vines bloom on old wood and last and last. Here in Zone 7b they start blooming in March and I saw a couple blossoms today, in mid November. My vines are right outside my kitchen window so I get to see the hummers feeding up close and personal.

Just found Coral Honeysuckle for sale at https://www.rareroots.com with Latin name - Lonicera sempervirens

Beautiful one! Which part of the country the honeysuckle native to?

Lonicera sempervirens native range map.
https://wildridgeplants.com/shop/lonicera-sempervirens-coral-honeysuckle/

East coast and southeast it is. Could trumpet creepers and other native vines provide nesting for birds?

I'm currently watching the hummingbirds go nuts over the flowers in my moringa tree. i normally keep it cut way down and this is the first time i've let it grow and it got flowers (we'll see if it gets drumsticks....); I didn't expect the birds to enjoy it so much!

I was so excited today to finally spot a ruby throated hummingbird on my property for the first time since I started gardening.

I found it inspecting my garden cosmos and dodging a house finch that was bothering it.

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Scarlet runner beans! Our ruby throated hummers love them.

We plant them on tall (8') tip-style structures, usually 6 poles at least, and 3 plants per pole. If you keep harvesting the young beans, the plants will keep flowering until a hard frost.

Indeed. The hummingbirds get territorial and chase each other around mine. I have to plant scarlet runner beans in different areas so they can all get some.

They also like cardinal flower alot in my yard.

*edited to add that one bonus of the scarlet runner beans is that the monarch butterflies really enjoy the nectar too and the flowers last until a hard frost. Hopefully that's helpful for their migration.

And right on time, 6 pm sharp, Mrs. Hummer is at my flowering scarlet runners. It's pretty cool to sit there, perfectly still in a chair 10 feet away, and watch her work the flowers with surgical precision.

Added - When I see the bumblebees and hummers at my plants, somehow I feel I have struck a blow, in a good way.

Canna lilies are easy to grow from seeds and flower in the first year. In colder regions, the rhizomes can be dug up and replanted next year. This one reaches 6 ft tall and keeps expanding and I have seen hummers and bumblebees visiting it.

Others plants that are great nectar source are Salvia and firecracker plant (Russelia equisetiformis). When I was a kid, I loved plucking the tubular flowers and sucking the droplets of sweet nectar.

Not sure how to link to a wiki page. There are different plants called firecracker plants but this is the one I had.

May Lotito wrote:Canna lilies are easy to grow from seeds and flower in the first year..

They absolutely do, so much so that here they are pests! you really have to keep up on pulling them out or they'll take over the yard. The hummers do like them.