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I need to know if there are any shade-loving vines that produce flowers that attract hummingbirds. I have multiple trellises, but they are placed close to the house, north/east/west sides, and they don't get all-day full sun. The east side gets early morning rising sun, then the eaves and a sweet gum tree cast the trellis in shade. The north side gets very early morning sun and very late setting sun, but shade throughout the day. The west side is in shade until about 1 PM, then strong sun, then dappled light through trees, then strong setting sun. Right now I have Manettia cordifolia Firecracker Vine, Ipomoea quamoclit Cypress Vine, Ipomoea x sloteri Cardinal Climber, Ipomoea purpurea Crimson Rambler Morning Glory, Ipomoea x multifida Cardinal Climber, Ipomoea coccinea var. hederifolia Scarlet Star Orange Morning Glory, Ipomoea coccinea Small Red Morning Glory, and Ipomoea luteola Scarlet Creeper growing on the west-side trellises, and none of them have bloomed! The other trellises (east/north) I hang potted plants on, filled with hummer-friendly annuals, because I can't get a lush covering of flowering vines to grow in the low light. I have had Mandevilla in previous years at all locations, (the hummers give the pink variety very little attention and do not visit the red variety at all), but at least I get a sparce-covering of blooms. Right now I have a new Honeysuckle on the west side, slowly vining it's way up a rose tower, and it is blooming, but not as vigorously as the honeysuckle growing and flowering in an island bed in the middle of the south-side lawn, which gets full all-day sun. We do tree trimming in the fall around the house, (the trees are about 30 years old), but anything planted under the eaves is shaded by the roof overhang for a length of time each day. I have other vines growing in a raised bed (west-side lawn) and potted with trellis (west-side lawn), where they get a mix of full sun/dappled sun/a little shade, from early morning to evening, and they are growing/blooming as expected. But up against the house... Any suggestions?
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