exotic odds and ends

[nightmist]

There a a fair few plants I would like to grow in limited quantity, but I am not sure I can grow at all either indoors or outdoors.

Here is a list of three, if anybody knows anything about growing any of them, sing out.

Long Pepper aka Piper longum

Grains of Paradise aka Guinea Pepper aka Meleguetta pepper aka Aframomum melegueta aka Amomum melegueta
The one in the ginger family, not the capsicum.

spikenard aka nardostachys jatamansi (not the armerican variety)

These do not look hopeful for cultivation, but would be ever so useful if I could. Spikenard I am not even sure I could aquire.

I'll try another three later, after everybody has had a chance to marvel at my insanity.