Both rosemary and sage are typical herbs in that they prefer their soil to at least partially dry out from time-to-time. The trick, of course, is that neither like their soil to be desert-dry either.

It looks like yours are not being grown in a raised bed, so if you get a lot of rain, it won't be to their liking.

What you've got is chlorosis due to insufficient drainage around the roots and a subsequent excess soil moisture.

There's not much you can do about that. Cutting your plants back is not going to affect the soil moisture level much. at all. What's going on has everything to do with what is happening in the root zone, and almost nothing to do with what is happening up top.

It's better to have these in a raised bed to improve drainage. While you do have to watch out that the soil in a raised bed doesn't become overly dry, that's correctable with watering and mulching. Soil that is too wet due to excess rain and insufficient drainage is tough to correct in the short term.

Thank you. Its funny because the opposite is usually the case in this bed. In July, August, Sept its hot and we've had drought conditions the past few years. So maybe the rain will stop. Usually I'm watering constantly in this bed to keep everything going.

If you fear that you are going to lose either of them I would take a few cuttings and pot the cuttings up as replacement plants just in case. If they do fine you can always make new friends by sharing any plants you do not need.

Lots of us are in the same club Bibbus. We had over 10 inches of rain in June...it's still raining, and when it stops raining...the humidity will stay. It is what it is. A few years ago it was heat and drought and they were stellar. Now, a bit sad looking. Happy 4th!

I think you have all the advice already give- I just wanted to say you have a gorgeous rosemary "tree" there!

Thank you all! It grew so large and was shading out other plants at the time AND I love topiary so I shaped it into three little balls. Now it has two big and one little ball. Time to prune the rest of them. If it will ever stop raining!