Bog Rosemary is a typical plant of peat bogs, it won`t tolerate alcaline soils for long. In the garden it is best kept in an artifical peat bog, where it prefers a somewhat drier spot, but it will tolerate even a few centimeters of flooding after heavy rain falls. Since it narrow leafs resemble those of rosemary it is commonly called Bog Rosemary, although there is no relationship to rosemary at all.