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00419-wasco-ridge-800px.jpg A lush mountain mahogany shows off its creamy-white post-bloom seed heads, which are just as nice as flowersThumbnailsAlong here are numerous "California everlasting" plants with their dry flowersA lush mountain mahogany shows off its creamy-white post-bloom seed heads, which are just as nice as flowersThumbnailsAlong here are numerous "California everlasting" plants with their dry flowersA lush mountain mahogany shows off its creamy-white post-bloom seed heads, which are just as nice as flowersThumbnailsAlong here are numerous "California everlasting" plants with their dry flowersA lush mountain mahogany shows off its creamy-white post-bloom seed heads, which are just as nice as flowersThumbnailsAlong here are numerous "California everlasting" plants with their dry flowersA lush mountain mahogany shows off its creamy-white post-bloom seed heads, which are just as nice as flowersThumbnailsAlong here are numerous "California everlasting" plants with their dry flowers

I always like chaparral landscapes, despite their unbearable summer heat, and the views off the edge of the road and across to Wasno Ridge make this area especially scenic to me.

I think about the palette of plants along here and which ones I might plant in my garden at some point. I already have manzanitas, coyote bush and ceanothus.