31 Bathroom plants 🛁
A bathroom is warm, often humid, and frequently short on direct light - conditions that suit tropical plants far better than most rooms. These picks all appreciate higher humidity, so the steam from a shower works in their favour instead of against them.
Light still matters. A bathroom with a window suits far more of these than a windowless one, where only the most shade-tolerant will hold up.
Alocasia (Elephant Ear)
Alocasia plants - the "Elephant Ears" - have some of the most dramatic, sculptural leaves in the…
Anthurium (Flamingo Flower)
The Anthurium is the houseplant that seems to be permanently in bloom.
Aralia (Polyscias)
The Aralia - botanically Polyscias - is an elegant, refined, almost bonsai-like indoor shrub or…
Areca Palm (Dypsis lutescens)
The Areca Palm - also called the Butterfly Palm or Golden Cane Palm - is the soft, feathery, gol…
Baby Tears (Soleirolia soleirolii - Angel's Tears)
Baby Tears - also called Angel's Tears, Mind-Your-Own-Business, or by its botanical name Soleiro…
Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus)
The Bird's Nest Fern - Asplenium nidus - is one of the most welcoming ferns you can bring indoor…
Boston Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)
The Boston Fern is the lush, cascading classic of the fern world - a soft fountain of arching gr…
Bromeliad (Guzmania, Aechmea, Neoregelia & more)
Bromeliads are the bold, exotic, long-lasting flowering plants that bring a true tropical splash…
Calathea / Prayer Plant (Calathea & Maranta)
Calatheas and their close relatives, the Marantas, are the showpieces of houseplant foliage.
Croton (Codiaeum variegatum)
The Croton is the most colorful foliage plant you can grow indoors.
Dieffenbachia (Dumb Cane)
The Dieffenbachia is a bold, fast-growing foliage plant with large, dramatic leaves splashed and…
English Ivy (Hedera helix)
English Ivy is the classic trailing, climbing vine - elegant, lush, and full of old-world charm,…
Fiddle Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata)
The Fiddle Leaf Fig is the supermodel of houseplants - tall, sculptural, and impossibly photogen…
Goldfish Plant (Nematanthus / Columnea)
The Goldfish Plant earns its name the moment it flowers.
Gynura (Purple Passion Plant)
The Purple Passion Plant (Gynura aurantiaca) is one of those houseplants that people fall for th…
Homalomena (Queen of Hearts)
The Homalomena - sometimes sold as "Queen of Hearts" - is one of those quietly excellent housepl…
Hoya (Wax Plant)
The Hoya, or Wax Plant, is a long-lived, easy-going trailing and climbing plant beloved for two…
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum)
The Maidenhair Fern is, by common agreement, one of the most beautiful houseplants there is - de…
Money Tree (Pachira aquatica)
The Money Tree is the houseplant of good fortune - instantly recognizable by its distinctive bra…
Monstera Adansonii (Swiss Cheese Vine)
The Monstera Adansonii - the "Swiss Cheese Vine" - is the smaller, trailing, holey cousin of the…
Nerve Plant (Fittonia)
The Nerve Plant is a small, vivid, dramatic little houseplant - its olive-green leaves are laced…
Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
The Norfolk Island Pine is the houseplant that looks like a perfect miniature Christmas tree - s…
Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)
The Peace Lily is one of the few easy houseplants that flowers reliably indoors.
Phalaenopsis Orchid (Moth Orchid)
The Phalaenopsis, or Moth Orchid, is the orchid for everyone.
Philodendron Birkin
The Philodendron Birkin is one of the most elegant and popular of the modern "designer" philoden…
Polka Dot Begonia (Begonia maculata)
The Polka Dot Begonia - Begonia maculata - is a striking cane begonia grown almost entirely for…
Prayer Plant (Maranta leuconeura)
The Prayer Plant - Maranta leuconeura - is one of the most captivating houseplants you can own,…
Rex Begonia (Begonia rex-cultorum)
The Rex Begonia is grown for one reason: its leaves are extraordinary.
Selaginella (Spikemoss / Resurrection Plant)
Selaginella - known as Spikemoss, and in some forms as the Resurrection Plant - is one of the mo…
Staghorn Fern (Platycerium)
The Staghorn Fern is one of the most dramatic and unusual plants you can grow indoors - a fern t…
Stromanthe Triostar (Stromanthe Sanguinea 'Triostar')
The Stromanthe Triostar is one of the most spectacularly colored houseplants you can grow.
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