I would love to try any of the following. The only thing I have from your want list is Cobaea scandens alba. I don't have a lot of those, but can split my pack of seeds with you. Salvia microphylla x greggii, Maraschino Salvia viridus, Blue Monday Salvia sclarea, Vatican White Salvia subrotunda Salvia splendens, Lighthouse Salvia apiana Salvia roemeriana, Hot Trumpets

Geranium ocellatum aka "Black-eyed" geranium,biennial Salvia roemeriana "Hot Trumpets",hummingbird magnet...starts blooming early,blooms until hard frost takes it down,perennial Will trade for other geraniums or salvia I don't have(lost count of varietys of salvia I already have) or other Zone 8 hardy native perennails that take heat and drought and are good hummingbird/butterfly plants. I very seldom get emails forwarded from GW so please email directly from email below miminanner@yahoo.com

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!

i picked some violet seed pods this evening & put them in a paper coin envelope to dry. for the past hour, i've been hearing periodic popping inside the envelope, as the drying pods spray the seed. it's kind of awesome.