Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) should be perennial, but it frequently doesn't make it through the winter, and if it does, it's not very vigorous the next year. This one, however, broke all the rules.
In Africa we grew perennial basil and it survived the winters there. Here, of course, it doesn't, but Ocimum kilimandscharicum × basilicum
is still worth growing, and also a great favourite with the bees. I have yet to succeed in over-wintering it, even indoors, where it just doesn't get enough light to survive. I'll try again this year.
Now it's back to the sage ...
... and the bees!
