Congrats on your hummingbirds! It took me 3 years of planting everything I thought they would love before i saw the first one. In Hialeah you should have them all winter long. Now that they've found your yard, I'm guessing they'll always come back. I don't know for certain about south Florida, but in Central Florida we mostly get them as they migrate through from S. America to states further north. I've been lucky the past 2 years to have a couple stick around all summer but most of them move on after a couple weeks as the weather warms up. In addition to firespike, try firebush and coral vine. Both of those, along with the firespike are major favorites in my garden. Do you have both the red and purple firespike? They don't bloom at the same time, so having both will extend the feeding season a bit. They also seem to go nuts for any blue salvia, but especially 'Black and Blue', Salvia guaranitica. Of course, they swarm around the annual red salvia. Strange, but in my yard they don't use the feeders very much - it's all about the plants.

That's a great feeling when you get your little feathered visitors. Our first hummingbirds (3) came early March, and for some strange reason, this year I have hardly seen any. Usually, we have a lot of them, so I am very sad as I loved watching them. Enjoy your little gifts from heaven wrapped in feathers :)

highly unlikely the power or phone company will likely cut it back when it gets near the lines just look at all the power lines with vines and branches on them in some areas dont know how much the power lines can hold, but the cable guy hung his ladder over the cable lines and said they were made to hold up to 700lbs

We have blue/black salvias in our front flower bed and have a few ruby-throated hummingbirds that stop by to visit them regularly, but all I have to do is think the word camera and they fly off. I'm jealous of your beautiful hummingbird pictures. The best I managed this weekend was getting a pretty good picture of a moth that looks somewhat like a hummingbird.