Blending terrain

Sup everyone, i'm looking to tweak the terrain on my map a little. I've blended a desert into a barrens style terrain. But i can't think of something to blend the barrens into that suites the area. Grassland is too plain, where as a forest is too thick for this area of the map. Does anyone have any suggestions?

It would help if you post some screenshots. It's difficult to give you suggestions if we don't know what your terrain looks like.

Hm, maybe a rugged/stony area?

ive done the same in my game, i used a couple different ones arround it,

-an orrange / brown themed land, dry with lodearon fall trees, and barrens rocks and such.
ive attached some pics, the first three but minus the rain and replace greyt with a pale yelow-brown distant fog, to make it look bright and sunny and theres dust in the air (helps with deserts).

and the last two could be a land you'd link it to

or a land sorta like barrens, but slightly lighter dirt, either use barrens or just use lodearon fall tiles, use some light grass and shrubs, fellwood thorns, and the dead trees, prefferably nortrend.. as they are blue :P but yeah, a custom resource would probably be best :) have boars, and generally spiky sorta stuff roaming, and the ashenvale vine texture can be useful too :)

well i hope these help, ive got more such lands, but i liked these the best :P
oh and yeah that crab is a wow export, so yeah.. bad, i know
oh well :P

enjoy :)