Yet, by the time we meet Basil in the 1970s, England had diminished as a country and, amid economic stagnation, lost its place in the world. Everywhere you looked, revolution was afoot ...
If you live in USDA hardiness zones 10 and 11, you could count on sweet basil as a perennial herb. For the rest of the country, it is considered an annual and will not come back the next year.