My white ones took over my front hedge all summer.And crawled up my front porch posts, that hold up the front porch,and started to get into the rafters! I finally had to cut them all down. I picked about 100 pods that were dry and had hard peas in them.I still need to get the seeds out of the pods. Like you, I had very poor performance from my purple hyacinth vine. I got 1 flower on a single 4 foot long vine that grew from my seeds that I planted. Only 1 lived. The 4 foot long vine is covered in aphids and so it the seed pod. No matter what I spray on it, I cant kill these pests! I have 1 sad seed pod covered in aphids, trying to make seeds. It was a BIG let down. But the white ones went wild! And they actually smelled like hyacinths...lightly. I was surprised at that! Your vine looks as big and robust as mine was...I bet you will get flowers VERY soon on those bloom spikes that you showed.

well hope so but odds are dwindling as the cold front comes in ...

HI I have the purple hyacinth vine. i actually have 4 of them that i put in from seed. they took off like crazy. if you are interested in pictures or seeds, let me know i would be happy to send them out. Dena