It has NEVER suckered for me. Maybe some people are reffering to Honeysuckle vine, which is a MAJOR thug and actually does sucker from the roots. It's not really a vine either, it's more of a sprawling shrub. Here's my experience with them. They have extensive root systems, that run along the surface. They do send out vine-like new growth in the spring or when watered too much, and that new growth is the one that crawls on the ground and could root if it gets enough moisture (which has never been a problem for me because they are watered with a drip irrigation system). I have several that i have trained into multi-trunked shrubs and i prune them to keep them compact. Another key element for keeping them compact and flowering more densly is to restrict water. The more stressed they are (to an extent) the heavier they flower. Another plus is that they attract hoardes of hummingbirds and bloom in the wintertime when little else is in bloom. Mine bloom all through winter unless we have a severe freeze like the one in 2007, when they froze the ground but came back from the roots. Here's a picture of one of my shrubs (which needs a little trimming). The picture is from the beginning of December and the plant was planted a year ago from a one gallon container. And hummingbirds can't resist these flower

welcome to NC! ok- as far as the honeysuckles the one you want to avoid is the japanese one, lonicera japonica. you can plant coral honeysuckle which is vigorous, but not invasive, and unfortunately not fragrant. it's lonicera sempervirens. it's a gorgeous coral red with yellowy throats that the hummers adore, and blooms heavily in spring then on & off all summer through fall. there are some yellow flowered cultivars of it. there are some other honeysuckles and i'm sorry i can't recall the names, that look a bit more like the jap kind, but are flushed with pink and gold and behave well and have fragrance that the hummers enjoy. campsis radicans, trumpet vine-aka cow itch-aka trumpet creeper is a native vine, but it is pretty invasive. i have it on my prop and let it grow up into one tree for the hummers, but keep the rest mowed off at the ground. it's like maypop- it comes up far and wide form the original from underground runners. cross vine- bignonia capreolata, is semi-well behaved. it's a native, too- and it's everywhere for me, and hard to eradicate where you don't want. it likes to climb high and flower- it flowers at about 40-60' in my trees. i think the improved versions like tangerine may flower more profusely for you than the straight species. hummers love both cross and trumpet vine, and i have both growing up big trees and flowering very successfully. they also like carolina jessamine, another native that can get a bit unruly. it's yellow, unlike the others, and so it could offer some contrast. another thing you may not have considered for hummers, is coral bells, heuchera species (look for the ones with red or pink bells- so many now have smaller dingy white flowers). and most of the salvias are magnets, too, even the blue ones like guaranitica. they like annuals like petunias, morning glories and million bells, too. more uncommon vines like manettia and mina lobata tickle them for later in the year. all that said, i'd be cautious about planning to plant too much this year though, with the drought. the likelihood of it continuing is too great, and water too scare to water much. if you are going to plant, do it soon while the earth is still moist and the things can get well established before it gets too dry. even with that, there's a good chance you'll lose much of what you plant now. i think i'd be content to get 2 or 3 feeders and hang those to draw in the hummers this year. best of luck with your gardens!

Here in Maryland, the deer don't eat honeysuckle, but they DO eat Weigelia. I spray them with repellant and that helps somewhat, but it's still a problem. Salvia is listed as deer resistant, so is the annual, Cleome. Hummingbirds like my Trumpet Vine, which is a huge climber with impressive yellow or orange/red flowers. The biggest problem I have with it is re-seeding. I have to be sure to snap off ALL the seed pods. Until I learned that, I had baby plants everywhere - and they're hard to dig out. Here is a link that might be useful: You can cross check the deer resistant plants on this list for hummingbirds

Persimmon, the Roundup is not being sprayed, but painted on the cut surface of the ivy stem while the cut is still fresh (ideally only seconds after the ivy stem has been severed). So the Roundup doesn't get on the tree (you should be using so little Roundup that it doesn't even run down the stem of the ivy). And the Roundup which has been absorbed into the ivy breaks down long before the ivy rots, so no Roundup is released from the ivy roots into the soil. Four years ago I had two nandinas at the front of the house (planted by the Previous Owners) which I did not want. So I had them cut off at the soil and immediately painted the cut trunks with Roundup concentrate (41%). The nandinas did not resprout. The dwarf nandina was located between two dwarf Burford hollies -- the trunks were about 2' from the nandina. The hollies were not affected by the Roundup on the nandina stump; they have since grown together, covering the area where the nandina had been. The 6' tall, skinny nandina's trunk was about 3-4' from the trunk of a camellia (shorter than the nandina but much wider). The camellia suffered no ill effects from the Roundup on the nandina stump; it has since grown to cover the area where the nandina was ... I joke that the camellia is trying to eat the house! If you don't want to bother with a jar of Roundup concentrate and a paintbrush, a neater applicator is a small squirt bottle (ketchup, mustard, glue, whatever).