Small plot, coastal central California. There's a 4ft by 20ft stretch we've kept having issues with plants dying. Original there was jade plants but they all started rotting & dying after having been there many years. We replaced the soil with store bought & tried growing lavender which took well and flourished for about 2 years. Some of it is still there but a significant chunk of the center stretch is dead. We have some green type of aeonium that's been flourishing. We use it on the border line of the patch.