I've had one venerable plant now for 10 years. I used to be zone 5 until a re-zoning a few years back and I'm now technically zone 6 but it's hit or miss what zone 6 plants will work for me. Sooooooo the secret - drainage - especially in the winter. Plus you need to stick to the most hardy of the lavenders like "munstead." FataMorgana

Where do you live? (state, zone?) Is this a recent photo -i.e., are these growing now? I enlarged each picture a lot. Reading top row, L to R: 1, 2, could well be alyssum but the foliage does not seem quite right to me) but 6 definitely is alyssum (which actually IS an herb - Google it!). I agree with the consensus on #3; looks like grass but if you pluck some of the leaves & smells & tastes like an onion, it is chives. I believe #4 is a petunia (also may be considered an herb due to some ways petunias have been used; e.g., as a tisane- yuck - and the leaves as a pest repellent). Row 2, L to R: Number 5 is haunting me; I should know it, but I think it is something generally sold up where I live as an annual in a hanging basket (like a verbena). Number 7 is thyme; w/o being able to smell it cannot say which cultivar, but it looks like English/French/winter or whatever "ordinary" culinary thyme is, depending on what nursery sells it & what they name it. The last one certainly is a rosemary.

5 looks like a creeping Verbena to me, 7 looks like a silver or variegated thyme (thus the reason we need larger photos) and I agree that 6 looks like alyssum, 8 like rosemary, 3 like chive, and 4 petunia. One and two don't look like culinary herbs to me - perhaps purple and white alyssum? If you can post each of the original photos in its own followup to this post, you should get confirmation.

The stem is square. I looked up all kinds of mint, and it resembles corn mint the most. I'm just so confused. How in the world did I get corn mint? Now I think that when I ordered seeds, that they put wrong seeds in the package. I have another package of seeds that produces something completely different then what was purchased. I need to find a better way of labeling, that does not get washed off. It's driving me nuts. Thank you all for your help. BTW, it does not have really minty taste or smell to it. I had the same problem before identifying chocolate mint. Not very minty. Oh well, I have to rip it out, since it will become invasive. It's going into some smoothies, and the chickens will love it, too :-)