As class we agreed that our mosque would be somewhat green.  California is in a drought, so I thought I could do my part in making the plants green, and use the least amount of water as possible while still making the mosque pretty and colorful. I picked out a variety of colors, like yellow, orange, pink and purple. I picked a few different colors because if we are doing designs, we have the different colors to work with. I decided that we should take the route of planting plants that are native to this area. On the California Native Plant Society’s website there is an option to  put in the location of our mosque, 12886 Bailey St.,  Whittier, and it gave me a variety of: trees, shrubs, perennials, vines, bird and butterfly plants, riparian, chaparral, grasses, hedges, ground covers. shade, part shade, sun, and annual plants that are native to where are mosque is. From there I went through and picked a few of the ones that I thought would look good around our mosque, and looked in to the plants profile, which gave information like, the name, if it was native, the height, natural setting, how much sun is needed, and what it is most commonly used for. This was very helpful to this project.  As far as dirt and soil goes we would use Pittmoss instead of peat moss, which is recycled and better for the earth.