Bog Sage is native to Argentina and Uruguay where it grows - how surprising - in bogs. Although it is hardy here only in wine-growing areas (it will need protection in all other regions), it is used since long as an annual. If you can provide for it a place at the pond with permanently moist soil, you will experience it to reach a beauty otherwise unknown. We keep our stockplants as tub plants. During the last few years this sage was also used as a herb, since its leaves taste of pepper.