For Gail's command performance ;-), some evergreen herbs in this zone 7/8 garden. 
lavender, santolina, Mexican oregano, germander, society garlic, curry, marjorum 
This bed holds thyme, saffron, chives, violets, and Mex tarragon with a rosemary cone on one side and a bay cone on the other.
I took these last month, but am just now getting them posted.
Here's the Sweet Bay 
That is one impressive Rosemary cone, my Rosemary was a twig with a few green shoots on it, my Bay is three inches tall, has two leaves and has been like that for two years. Chives do fine for me, if I can find a sunny spot for them, and I have a couple of large terracotta pots with two kinds of mint in them. Is society garlic the same as ordinary garlic, makes peoples breath smell so no one wants to talk to them , if so it should be called anti-social garlic. 
Nearly forgot, love the oak leaf mulch between the herbs, different oak to ours.
The rosemary is a more hardy variety of the species. It was discovered growing in an East Texan town named Arp, which it is named after. My Bay started as a 3" twig too, so don't give up on yours! They seem to just sit for 2 or 3 years before taking off, then grow at a normal rate afterwards that. Well, around here anyway :-)
I keep a pot of chives in the kitchen window as well as - it gets a lot more harvesting than these outdoors backups! I have sev kinds of mints in pots too Terry. In fact, that's a lavender scented one in the strawberry jar in the pic - it is divine.
I just knew you would make me do Latin ;) Society garlic is Tulbaghia violacea. It melts in a freeze, then shoots up new growth soon afterwards, so its not really evergreen, but it seems to be in leaf thru most of our mild winters. The leaves are used for a light garlicy/oniony flavor, so your anti social is apropos .) Has great lav flowers all summer. There is a variegated one as well as the solid green ones that Gail brought me oxxoxo
The oak Q. rubra, is known as 'Red Oak' over here from its red autumn foliage. Appar there are 2 kinds. One drops it leaves in fall proper and mine (grrr) drizzles some all winter, then finally drops the rest at end of Feb thru Mar, which means it makes messes for months. But I leave it in the beds, for an easy mulch.