BuckyB93 wrote:
Once oregano, chives, lavender, thyme, sage, rosemary are established they are perennials and survive the winter as long as you provide some covering insulation like fall leaves in my region. The others, I've found, can't handle the cold or are annuals so I replant every season.
Yes, all of those will go dormant for a cold winter. I never had much luck with rosemary surviving the winter though up here and rosemary hates being indoors during the winter. It'll just die.
My oregano, chives, lavender, and thyme all came back in the spring. Once you have a stand of chives established, you'll have chives forever and they make a ton of seeds too, so you'll never have to buy seeds aqain to start more plants next season I have one stand of chives that is over 30 years old. Chives being in the onion family, their seed doesn't stay viable for long, so even fresh seed after 1 or 2 years in storage, germination will get real sketchy.
I can't say anything about Amazon seed sellers, I never bought any from them. I have bought some locally and plenty from ETSY and EBAY sellers. You can't beat the vast selection of varieties available there, stuff you will never find locally at the garden centers or Walmart.
And there is always reputable online seed companies.