New Herbs to Drool Over for 2022!

Nature Hills Nursery | February 14, 2026

Nature Hills is proud to introduce an exclusive new line of fantastic Herb plants by GardenZest® for your landscape! These are rare and cutting edge, unique versions of your favorite traditional herbs with better branching, enhanced flavor, improved color, and intensified aromas. These new Herbs are outstanding crossover plants from the Herb garden for ornamental use, containers, cutting gardens and beyond!

All of these new and exciting Herbs also feature later bloom times, so you can enjoy longer cutting potential and higher foliage yield per plant! Plus improvements such as disease and mildew resistance and insect resistance for great Herbs that won't need any fussing over!

These are just as versatile as an ornamental culinary Herb can get but with heightened color and intensified flavor, they’re as densely branched and compact for more delicious leaves to harvest!

Tuck these gems into your Herb, Vegetable and Kitchen Garden, Cutting borders and Container plantings. Fantastic in Pollinator Gardens where the blooms support a host of beneficial bees and other insects!

Their versatile blooms and bountiful foliage can be used for: bouquet

Fresh in recipes & baking
Add color, nutrition, flavor & aromatics to food
Floral design & bouquets
Dried for crafts or later culinary use
Sized for containers, planters, windowsills & small-space gardening
Highly ornamental garden décor

Fewer spraying for pests and other issues, just give these beauties some regular fertilizer and water to keep them happy and healthy! Plant these fantastic Herbs anywhere you need to spice up your landscape, your food, or inside your home!

Check out the new Herbs for 2022!

Here is Nature Hills' exclusive offering of brand-new, rare and unusual selections exhibiting unique traits never seen before!

Better than the Classic Chives

Pink Flowering Chives and White Flowering Chives

Compact clumps of flavorful blue-green foliage
Larger edible flower clusters with unique color
Season dishes, dry for later use, garnish and floral design
Perennial Zones 3 - 9
Later blooming and enhanced flavor
Outstanding ornamental landscaping plant

Outstanding Oreganos

‘TheGreek’ and ‘TallDark&Traditional’ Oregano feature enhanced flavor and aromatic qualities, but retain the familiar dark green fuzzy leaves, but with beautiful pink flowers for pollinators! Both these new Oregano’s have a wide range of culinary and ornamental landscaping uses!

‘TheGreek’ is a fantastic prostrate spreading variety
‘TallDark&Traditional’ is an upright growing form
Perennial Zones 5 - 9, great annual for colder climates

Bountiful Big-Leafed Basils

‘SweetSurvivor’ and ‘GenoSurvivor’ Basil have fantastic vase-shaped forms and incredible amounts of branching, so you get to harvest more per plant! Later blooming also gives you more leaves and less pinching to keep your Basil bushy!

‘SweetSurvivor’ is a Nufar-type Basil while ‘GenoSurvivor’ is a Genovese Basil
Enhanced flavor and leaf size
Improved powdery mildew resistance
Annual Herbs

Amazingly Aromatic Herbs

'Cascading Rosemary' is a spreading, creeping prostrate Rosemary with grey-green foliage that’s broadleaf, densely branched and very compact! Giving you tons more intensely flavorful leaves to harvest per plant! Combined with heightened flavor and aroma, you’ll really punch up the flavors of your favorite recipes and baked goods!

Intense flavor and extremely aromatic foliage
Shrubby perennial in Zones 8 - 11, annual for colder climates
Fantastic ornamental landscaping and culinary uses!

'Intense Sage' is a narrow-leafed culinary Sage with beautiful silvery grey-green foliage. A fantastic ornamental for your landscaping garden beds and containers as a spiller and filler that pulls double-duty in the garden! Later blooming, compactly growing and densely branched, you’ll get more foliage per plant and more for your money!

Extremely aromatic and flavor enhanced!
Perennial Zones 5 - 8, annual for colder climates

Later Blooming & Boosted Flavors!

‘Late&Spicy’ Cilantro features later season blooms so you can enjoy more of those gorgeous blue-green leafy stems, plus improved branching and very compact growth! It’s an ornamental and culinary delight and a beneficial plant for pollinators!

Blue-green leafy salad-type Cilantro
Heightened flavor and aroma
Annual Herb
Bit white flowers become Coriander seeds
Butterfly Host Plant

‘Late&Blue’ Dill is a later blooming, blue-green leafed Dill with enhanced branching, more compact so you get lots of leaves for all your favorite summer salads!

More flavor and aroma packed Dill Weed and Dill Seeds
Huge yellow blooms!
Butterfly Host Plant
Annual Herb

‘Late&Broad’ Epazote is a Mexican culinary herb with extremely strong flavor and aroma! Featuring broader, thicker leaves for higher foliage yield per plant! That means more tea, more authentic recipes and flowers that form later in the season for you to enjoy.

Later blooming for more foliage and less pinching
Annual Herb - Perennial in sub-tropical growing zones

‘Burgundy&Late’ Fennel is an extremely beautiful flowering plant! Growing tons of finely-textured, dark violet-burgundy foliage! It’s super compact with lots of basal branching with huge, bright yellow blooms are gorgeous flowers on their own! Fennel is also a vital host plant and nectar source for beneficial pollinators!

Extremely flavorful and aromatic
Butterfly Host Plant
Outstanding ornamental landscaping plant!

More Flavor - Less Effort

Enhanced flavor, more foliage per plant and gorgeous garden additions are sure to give you more bang for your buck! Get more out of your garden investment for recipes, dried florals, crafts, floral bouquets, kitchen medicine and more!

Even if you’re not in a growing zone where they come back every year, their vigorous growth makes them fantastic annuals and seasonal container additions, beautiful accents in mixed-planters, or grown for Kitchen, Herb and Vegetable gardens during the warmer growing seasons! Many can be brought in for the winter and grown on a sunny windowsill for the cold months of the year.

Add some GardenZest® to your life with these easy-care exciting Herbs available at NatureHills.com today!

Watch for more new and interesting Herb selections coming soon to Nature Hills Nursery!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which of the new herbs for 2022 are easiest for beginner gardeners to grow successfully?

All of the new GardenZest herbs for 2022 are excellent choices for beginner gardeners because they have been specifically bred for improved disease and mildew resistance, insect resistance, and compact, well-branched growth habits that require minimal fussing. The Pink and White Flowering Chives are particularly forgiving, thriving as perennials in Zones 3 through 9 with very little maintenance beyond regular watering and fertilizing. The new Oregano varieties, including 'TheGreek' and 'TallDark&Traditional', are similarly low-maintenance and adaptable to containers or garden beds. Start with any of these selections, give them consistent water and a basic fertilizer routine, and you will be rewarded with flavorful harvests and beautiful blooms from the very first season.

How many hours of sunlight do the new 2022 herbs need to thrive?

The article provided does not include specific sunlight hour requirements for the new 2022 GardenZest herbs. As a general rule for most herbs, plan on providing at least 6 to 8 hours of direct sunlight daily for the best flavor, fragrance, and growth. Choose your sunniest garden bed, container spot, or windowsill to get the most out of these plants and ensure a productive harvest.

How often should I water newly planted herbs, and does that change as they mature?

Newly planted herbs typically need water every 1 to 2 days for the first few weeks until roots establish, then you can taper to a deep watering once or twice per week depending on rainfall and temperatures. As herbs mature, most prefer to dry out slightly between waterings since consistently soggy soil can lead to root rot and diminished flavor. The GardenZest herbs from Nature Hills are bred for improved resilience, but regular watering paired with consistent fertilizing is still the key to keeping foliage lush and harvest-ready. Check soil moisture an inch below the surface and water thoroughly when it feels dry to keep your herbs thriving all season long.

Can the new 2022 herbs be grown in pots or containers on a patio or deck?

Yes, the new 2022 GardenZest herbs from Nature Hills are perfectly sized for containers, planters, and even windowsills, making them an excellent choice for patio and deck gardening. Their compact, densely branched growth habit means you get a generous harvest of flavorful foliage without needing a large footprint. Choose a well-draining container, provide regular water and fertilizer, and place them in a sunny spot to keep them productive and looking their best all season long.

Which of these new herbs grow well indoors on a sunny windowsill?

All of the new GardenZest herbs are sized specifically for containers, planters, and windowsill growing, making them excellent candidates for indoor cultivation. The compact Chives varieties, with their tidy clumping habit, and the spreading Oregano selections adapt particularly well to indoor pots as long as they receive plenty of direct sunlight. Place them in your sunniest south- or west-facing window, water regularly, and feed with a balanced fertilizer to keep them productive and flavorful year-round.

Should I start the new 2022 herbs from seed or buy nursery starts for better results?

For the best results with Nature Hills' exclusive 2022 GardenZest herb line, purchase nursery starts rather than attempting to grow from seed. These are proprietary, specially bred varieties selected for unique traits like enhanced flavor, improved disease resistance, and compact branching that cannot be reliably reproduced from seed. Head to naturehills.com to order your nursery-grown starts and get them established in your garden, containers, or kitchen garden this season.

When is the right time to harvest these new herbs so the plants keep producing all season?

Harvest these GardenZest herbs regularly by snipping stems just above a leaf node or set of leaves, ideally in the morning after dew has dried. Because these varieties were bred for later bloom times and denser branching, frequent cutting actually encourages bushier growth and delays flowering, which extends your harvest window throughout the season. For best results, never remove more than one-third of the plant at a time, and fertilize regularly after each harvest to keep production strong.

How do I properly prune or pinch back these new herbs to encourage bushy, healthy growth?

Pinch back the growing tips of these GardenZest herbs regularly once plants reach about 6 inches tall, removing the top inch or two of each stem to encourage the dense, compact branching these varieties are bred for. For culinary herbs like oregano and chives, pinching before flower buds fully open also extends your harvest window and keeps foliage production strong throughout the season. Make clean cuts just above a leaf node using sharp scissors or pruning shears, and repeat this process every few weeks during the active growing season for the bushiest, most productive plants possible.

What type of fertilizer works best for herbs, and how frequently should I apply it?

For most herbs, a balanced slow-release granular fertilizer such as a 10-10-10 works well applied at the start of the growing season, with a light liquid fertilizer like a 5-5-5 applied every 4 to 6 weeks through summer to keep growth vigorous and flavorful. Avoid over-fertilizing with high-nitrogen formulas, as this encourages lush leafy growth at the expense of the essential oils that give herbs their flavor and aroma. For the new GardenZest herbs available at Nature Hills, consistent watering paired with regular fertilization is all these low-maintenance varieties need to thrive. Start with a slow-release granular at planting, then supplement with a diluted liquid feed monthly during the active growing season for the best harvest.

Which of the new 2022 herbs grow well together in the same garden bed or container?

All of the new GardenZest 2022 herbs thrive in similar growing conditions, making them excellent companions in the same bed or container. The Pink and White Flowering Chives, the Outstanding Oreganos, and the other new introductions all prefer well-drained soil, full sun, and regular fertilizer and water. The compact, densely branched habits of these selections make them especially well-suited for container plantings, raised beds, and small-space gardens without crowding each other out. Pair the spreading prostrate Oregano varieties as a low ground cover alongside the upright Chives for a visually dynamic, pollinator-friendly planting that delivers both culinary and ornamental impact.