Successful Succulent Landscaping

Learn the secrets to a successful, healthy and colorful succulent landscape.  Topics will include pre-planting considerations (before you go out and buy a truckload of plants and then ponder where to put them); garden design basics that include the use of color, shapes, textures and heights; favorite and hardy landscape succulents for the Bay Area. Lastly, there will be a discussion of how to care and maintain your succulents for a year-long healthy and colorful landscape.

UC Master Gardener Presenters:
Janice Moody: Janice’s horticultural roots run deep—she grew up on a nursery that her family started in Half Moon Bay in the early 60’s. Although she majored in Dietetics at UC Davis, her inner passion for gardening never waned and after wearing many hats over the years, she finally found her true calling in life when she became a UC Master Gardener in 2010 and eventually started Seascapes Succulent Nursery and Garden Design in 2016, located in Half Moon Bay. She calls herself a jack of many trades, but a Master of only one—gardening. She feels so fortunate to be able to work outdoors, doing what she loves most, and sharing her gardening knowledge with others.
Francesca Niyogi: Francesca joined the UC Master Gardener program in 2026 and is a longtime volunteer at the San Mateo Arboretum Society. Growing up in Pakistan, she developed an early love for flowers and gardens with memories of her mother teaching her about plants like “dog flowers” (snapdragons!) and pansies. Today, she enjoys experimenting with different plants and gardening methods, finding joy not only in her successes but also in the learning process itself—one that requires patience, research, observation, and a lot of luck.

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Photo credit: Janice Moody, UC Master Gardener