> messy setup makes them look wild.

It is, isn't it? ;0)

I can't keep the herbs that are being sold in supermarkets alive either.... At one point, I read something about that.... how they are grown not to stay alive... but I don't remember exactly what it was about. Makes sense, though... If they would stay alive, you wouldn't have to buy it over and over again, so there would be no money to be made ;0)