PERENNIAL HERBS

Sage, Thyme, Lavender, Chives & Tarragon

Herbs are a perfect addition to your garden! They are extremely easy to grow and come back year after year. You can harvest them for your meals, drinks, medicinal purposes, aromatherapy, in addition many have gorgeous blooms! Perennial herbs tend to live longer that two years. They go dormant in the winter and return in the spring sending up new stems and leaves from the crown. Chives are usually the first to pop up in March. Most herbs in the mint family are perennial, such as rosemary, oregano, thyme, sage, lemon balm, marjoram, anise hyssop, and mint

PERENNIAL HERBS sold in 4" pots: Thyme. Sage, Mint, Tarragon, Savory, Lemon Verbena, Rosemary and Lemon Balm

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SAGE

Sages are celebrated by gardeners and chefs alike for both their ornamental beauty and their exceptional culinary qualities. While classic green sages are traditionally grown for the kitchen, the colorful varieties make stunning, structural additions to any perennial garden. Beyond their beauty and flavor, sages are incredibly tough, they are highly drought-tolerant, naturally deer-resistant, and hardy enough to withstand frost. To thrive, they simply require full sun and well drained soil.

Salvia oficinalis (Common Sage): This wonderful perennial herb is a kitchen staple, but the straight species is also highly ornamental, producing spikes of beautiful, classic blue salvia flowers in the garden.
Berggarten Sage: A fantastic green cultivar we love for its large, rounded, silvery-green leaves and robust growth habit.
Purple Sage(Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens'): Features striking, smoky-purple new foliage that adds dramatic color contrast to your herb beds or garden borders.
Tricolor Sage (Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'): A gorgeous variegated variety splashed with shades of green, white, and pinkish-purple.
Pineapple Sage and Golden Pineapple Sage: They grow into 5-to-6-foot plants and in late summer, they produce large, vibrant racemes of brilliant red flowers that pollinators adore. The foliage has an unmistakable pineapple fragrance. Be sure to plant these early in the season to give them plenty of time to reach their full, dramatic size before the late-summer bloom begins!

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CHIVES

Chives are cool-season, cold-tolerant perennials that are best planted in early to mid-spring for an abundant early summer harvest. Beyond their value in the kitchen, chives make a wonderful companion plant in the garden, naturally deterring common pests with their aromatic foliage. For the best results, try planting them alongside carrots, celery, lettuce, peas, and tomatoes!

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THYME

Thyme is one of the hardiest, most rewarding plants you can add to your landscape. A hardy low growing evergreen herb with small, fragrant leaves and thin, woody stems. Thyme has ornamental, culinary and medicinal qualities.

In the Kitchen: Classic English Thyme and bright, zesty Lemon Thyme are great for your summer recipes.
In the Cracks & Patios: Transform your hardscaping with Creeping Thyme. Creeping Thyme is purely ornamental and comes in red, white, pink chintz and wooly. Varieties like Woolly Thyme spread 2–3 feet wide and grows beautifully over flat patio stones. Given good drainage and full sun, creeping thyme grows like ground cover.
For Brilliant Color: Brighten up sunny beds with variegated options like Silver Thyme or our golden collection (Archer’s Gold, Golden Lemon).

Give your thyme full sun and well-drained soil, and watch it thrive!

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LAVENDER

Lavender is one of those plants we never get enough of at Vineyard Gardens. While it’s a wonderful culinary herb, it truly shines in the garden bringing soft drifts of color from early summer into fall. With its silvery-green foliage, upright flower spikes, and shrub-like form, lavender is perfect for edging paths or tucking into perennial borders. And of course, it’s just as lovely harvested for its calming fragrance.

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MINT

Mints are vigorous perennial herbs that are a must-have for any kitchen garden. However, a word of advice for your landscape: mints are best grown in containers! They spread voraciously via underground runners and can be incredibly difficult to eliminate from a garden bed once established. In the kitchen, mint is remarkably versatile, essential for fresh summer cooking, hot or iced teas, and classic cocktails like mojitos. All mint varieties thrive best in full sun and well-drained soil.

Peppermint and spearmint are the two most popular mints.
- Kentucky Colonel Spearmint: Our absolute favorite spearmint for many years! It produces large, robust leaves with a sweet, classic flavor.
- Mojito Mint: A distinct spearmint variety with a mild scent that is perfectly tailored for muddling into cocktails.
- Chocolate Mint: A rich variation of peppermint with darker stems and a delightful scent reminiscent of a peppermint patty.
- Corsican Mint: This specialty mint features tiny, microscopic green leaves and stays completely low to the ground. It is perfect for planting in the cracks of stone patios or walkways where it releases a refreshing scent when stepped on. Unlike its aggressive cousins, Corsican mint is a bit more delicate and challenging to grow, requiring consistent moisture and partial shade.
- Variegated Mints: We also carry several ornamental, multi-colored variegated mints. Because of their beautiful splashed foliage, they look spectacular when mixed with annuals in patio pots!

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TARRAGON

Tarragon Artemesia dracunculus is a perennial culinary herb that tastes a little like anise or has licorice like flavors. It is a staple in French cuisine and is often referred to as French tarragon.

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