I have missed Ericas since moving down here--my mother used to collect them and had lots. This one looks like I could possibly grow it here. Don't know where you live, except USA! lol Doesn't sound like a houseplant--according to the first source I found it grows 6 to 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide, full sun to part shade, and is hardy to 20 F. Sounds great!

I want to know if could get christmas bell pepper seeds for my garden.Like your garden!

Thanks for the comments guys, its still to cold at night here to leave them outside permanently, I can't wait until the end of may. I will be keeping the 4 big pots here on the balcony and all the plants in 8 inch pots will go in my mother in-laws garden in the ground.

I pulled my first ripe Bonda ma Jacques today. This is my first time growing them. If the first pod is any indication of the rest then I'd say it has a Habanero mouth burn but really nails the back of your throat. I was expecting more fruity taste than was present. I'll update if future pods impress me more. I also seeded a few Bulgarian Spicy pods today. Overall, not really a remarkable pepper. It has a milder than Cayenne heat and taste with loads of seeds. Actually as I was munching one I found myself spitting seeds ;-) Here are some updated shots of my Black Cuban / NuMex Twilingt cross. The flowers and pods have the colour charistics of the Cuban but plant and pod shape are classic Twilight. Interesting how the pods start out black and then take on an olive green colour before ripening red. Here are a couple of shots taken earlier this summer. I didn't have time (ok I wasn't fast enough) to wrap any plant I wanted to collect seed from in a mesh row cover. I ended up just wrapping branch ends where buds hadn't flowered yet. My main objective is to keep pollinators away. You can see from this close up of the mesh that it won't effectively block all blowing pollen but I'm comfortable that plant spacing and mesh eliminates 99% chance of crosses. Just for fun I tried the carpenters glue method of keeping pods true. Basically, the theory is gluing the bud before it flowers stops it from flowering and the bud self pollinates and as the pod develops it pushes the glue off. Well, I call this theory busted. I glued and tagged four buds and within a few days all had flowers ;-)) That's it for now. Sorry if I bored anyone ;-)