Nard flower from the bible? Where do i buy this one?

browndude3649 · September 18, 2010

Where can i get the
Nard?
I've seen it and smelled it once on a local street and would like to do this in my back yard.
Anybody grow this guy?

gardenpaws_VA · September 18, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spikenard

Good luck! A quick browse turned up lots of reports on bioactivity, but NOTHING on availability live, though American spikenard (which is apparently an Aralia) is available from US native plant sources. N. jatamansi (Indian spikenard) apparently lives above the tree line in the Himalayas (and is listed as threatened there), so I'm not sure it would even survive in the Napa Valley environment. Maybe you encountered the American sort?

Let us know if you find any, though as I said, most of us would probably be in climates friendlier to tomatoes than to nard.

Robin

September 18, 2010	#1
browndude3649 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: napa valley Posts: 23	Nard flower from the bible? Where do i buy this one? Where can i get the Nard? I've seen it and smelled it once on a local street and would like to do this in my back yard. Anybody grow this guy?

September 18, 2010	#2
gardenpaws_VA Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern Virginia, USA - zone 7+ Posts: 161	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spikenard Good luck! A quick browse turned up lots of reports on bioactivity, but NOTHING on availability live, though American spikenard (which is apparently an Aralia) is available from US native plant sources. N. jatamansi (Indian spikenard) apparently lives above the tree line in the Himalayas (and is listed as threatened there), so I'm not sure it would even survive in the Napa Valley environment. Maybe you encountered the American sort? Let us know if you find any, though as I said, most of us would probably be in climates friendlier to tomatoes than to nard. Robin