71 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…
Alocasia Dragon Scale
Alocasia Dragon Scale is a compact jewel Alocasia prized for its stiff, deeply textured leaves…
Alocasia Jacklyn
Alocasia Jacklyn is a striking collector aroid prized for its bold, deeply lobed, antler-like…
Alocasia Maharani
Alocasia 'Maharani' is a compact "jewel" Alocasia prized for its thick, almost stone-like…
Alocasia Sarian
Alocasia Sarian is a striking hybrid aroid prized for pairing dramatic arrow-shaped foliage…
Alocasia Silver Dragon
Alocasia Silver Dragon is a compact, slow-growing aroid prized for its thick, silvery leaves…
Alocasia Sinuata
Alocasia Sinuata is a compact "jewel" Alocasia prized for its thick, sculpted leaves that look…
Alocasia Wentii
Alocasia Wentii, often sold as the "Hardy Elephant Ear" or "New Guinea Shield," is a…
Anthurium (Flamingo Flower)
The Anthurium is the houseplant that seems to be permanently in bloom.
Anthurium Andraeanum
Anthurium andraeanum, often called the flamingo flower or painter's palette, is a tropical…
Anthurium Clarinervium
Anthurium Clarinervium is a compact, velvet-leaved aroid grown purely for its dramatic foliage…
Anthurium Forgetii
Anthurium Forgetii is a compact velvet-leaved collector aroid prized for one striking quirk…
Anthurium Pedatoradiatum
Anthurium Pedatoradiatum is a collector-favourite aroid grown entirely for its dramatic, deeply…
Anthurium Regale
Anthurium Regale is a large-leaved velvet aroid prized by collectors for its enormous…
Anthurium Veitchii
Anthurium Veitchii, widely known as the "King Anthurium", is a prized epiphytic aroid grown…
Anthurium Vittarifolium
Anthurium Vittarifolium is a pendant, strap-leaf aroid prized for its dramatically long…
Anthurium Warocqueanum
The Queen Anthurium is one of the most coveted velvet-leaved aroids in the hobby, prized for…
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…
Baby Tears (Soleirolia soleirolii - Angel's Tears)
Baby Tears - also called Angel's Tears, Mind-Your-Own-Business, or by its botanical name…
Beetle Peperomia
Beetle Peperomia is a compact, trailing epiphyte prized for its small, glossy leaves marked…
Begonia Soli-Mutata
Begonia soli-mutata is a small rhizomatous begonia prized by collectors for its heavily…
Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium nidus)
The Bird's Nest Fern - Asplenium nidus - is one of the most welcoming ferns you can bring…
Boston Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)
The Boston Fern is the lush, cascading classic of the fern world - a soft fountain of arching…
Bromeliad (Guzmania, Aechmea, Neoregelia & more)
Bromeliads are the bold, exotic, long-lasting flowering plants that bring a true tropical…
Bulbophyllum Orchid
Bulbophyllum is the orchid family's weird wing - 2,000+ species of hinged, wobbling…
Calathea / Prayer Plant (Calathea & Maranta)
Calatheas and their close relatives, the Marantas, are the showpieces of houseplant foliage.
Calathea Makoyana
Calathea Makoyana, better known as the Peacock Plant or Cathedral Windows, is a showpiece…
Calathea Medallion
The Calathea Medallion is a compact, showy prayer plant grown almost entirely for its striking…
Calathea Ornata
Calathea Ornata, often sold as the "pinstripe plant", is a striking tropical foliage plant…
Calathea Roseopicta
Calathea Roseopicta, often sold as the rose-painted calathea, is a compact, showy foliage plant…
Crocodile Fern
The crocodile fern earns its name with big, undivided, leathery fronds textured like reptile…
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…
Dragon Wing Begonia
The Dragon Wing Begonia is a vigorous, fibrous-rooted cane begonia prized for its glossy…
English Ivy (Hedera helix)
English Ivy is the classic trailing, climbing vine - elegant, lush, and full of old-world…
Escargot Begonia
The Escargot Begonia is a rhizomatous rex begonia prized for one showstopping feature: each…
Eyelash Begonia
The Eyelash Begonia is a small rhizomatous begonia named for the fine, dark hairs that fringe…
Fiddle Leaf Fig (Ficus lyrata)
The Fiddle Leaf Fig is the supermodel of houseplants - tall, sculptural, and impossibly…
Frosty Fern (Spikemoss)
The 'frosty fern' isn't a fern at all - it's a spikemoss, sold everywhere at Christmas for its…
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…
Heart Fern
The heart fern is a tiny surprise - small, glossy, heart-shaped leaves on dark wiry stems…
Homalomena (Queen of Hearts)
The Homalomena - sometimes sold as "Queen of Hearts" - is one of those quietly excellent…
Hoya (Wax Plant)
The Hoya, or Wax Plant, is a long-lived, easy-going trailing and climbing plant beloved for two…
Iron Cross Begonia
The Iron Cross Begonia is a rhizomatous begonia grown purely for its dramatic foliage: heavily…
Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum)
The Maidenhair Fern is, by common agreement, one of the most beautiful houseplants there is…
Money Tree (Pachira aquatica)
The Money Tree is the houseplant of good fortune - instantly recognizable by its distinctive…
Monstera Adansonii (Swiss Cheese Vine)
The Monstera Adansonii - the "Swiss Cheese Vine" - is the smaller, trailing, holey cousin of…
Nerve Plant (Fittonia)
The Nerve Plant is a small, vivid, dramatic little houseplant - its olive-green leaves are…
Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla)
The Norfolk Island Pine is the houseplant that looks like a perfect miniature Christmas tree…
Painted-Leaf Begonia
The Painted-Leaf Begonia, better known to growers as the Rex Begonia, is a rhizomatous foliage…
Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)
The Peace Lily is one of the few easy houseplants that flowers reliably indoors.
Peacock Begonia
The Peacock Begonia is a prized collector's begonia famous for leaves that shimmer an electric…
Peperomia Frost
Peperomia Frost is a compact, semi-succulent foliage plant prized for its shimmering…
Peperomia Rosso
Peperomia Rosso is a compact, semi-succulent foliage plant prized for its deeply textured…
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"…
Philodendron Gloriosum
Philodendron Gloriosum (Philodendron gloriosum) is a prized crawling aroid grown for its large…
Philodendron Verrucosum
Philodendron verrucosum is one of the most coveted velvet-leaf climbers in the aroid world…
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…
Raindrop Peperomia
Raindrop Peperomia is a compact, semi-succulent foliage plant loved for its glossy…
Rex Begonia (Begonia rex-cultorum)
The Rex Begonia is grown for one reason: its leaves are extraordinary.
Ripple Peperomia
Ripple Peperomia is a compact, semi-succulent houseplant prized for its deeply corrugated…
Selaginella (Spikemoss / Resurrection Plant)
Selaginella - known as Spikemoss, and in some forms as the Resurrection Plant - is one of the…
Silver Lace Fern
The silver lace fern is a delicate table fern painted down the middle - each narrow leaflet…
Staghorn Fern (Platycerium)
The Staghorn Fern is one of the most dramatic and unusual plants you can grow indoors - a fern…
Stromanthe Triostar (Stromanthe Sanguinea 'Triostar')
The Stromanthe Triostar is one of the most spectacularly colored houseplants you can grow.
Tillandsia Brachycaulos
Tillandsia Brachycaulos is a soft-leaved epiphytic air plant that grows without soil, drawing…
Tuberous Begonia
The Tuberous Begonia is a flowering tuberous perennial prized for its large, rose-like or…
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