This past weekend I participated in a rammed earth workshop at Vasquez Rocks, led by Materials and Applications and Scrubjay Studios.
During the 50-minute drive from downtown LA, we passed through the San Gabriel Mountains, climbed and descended, and found ourselves in a hot, dry, rocky landscape with a distinctive color palette and plant community.
The plants of this woodland juniper community were stunning in the morning sun. I think the silvery shrub is ashyleaf buckwheat, contrasting here with the reddish dried flowers of California buckwheat:
California sagebrush with California buckwheat:
What might be ashyleaf buckwheat contrasting with warm yellow grass:
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