34 Best Indoor Plants for Bathrooms

How to Grow and Care for Indoor Plants in Bathrooms

Growing and caring for indoor plants in bathrooms offers a unique opportunity to enhance these intimate spaces with vibrant greenery, leveraging the higher humidity and often indirect lighting conditions. Here’s how to make the most of your bathroom’s environment for indoor plants:

Choosing the Right Plants

Select plants that thrive in high humidity and can tolerate the specific light conditions of your bathroom, whether it’s low light, medium, or bright, indirect light. Ferns, pothos, and peace lilies are excellent choices for typical bathroom environments.

Lighting

• Assess the Natural Light: Determine the amount of natural light your bathroom receives through windows or skylights. This will guide your plant selection.
• Supplemental Lighting: If natural light is scarce, consider using grow lights to provide the necessary spectrum of light for plant growth.

Humidity

• Most bathroom plants benefit from the high humidity, mimicking their native tropical environments. However, ensure adequate ventilation to prevent excess moisture from encouraging fungal growth.

Watering

• The high humidity may reduce the need for frequent watering. Check the soil moisture level before watering to avoid overwatering.
• Use tepid water to avoid shocking the plants, and ensure pots have drainage holes to prevent water from pooling at the bottom.

Temperature

• Ensure your bathroom maintains a consistent temperature that aligns with the needs of your chosen plants. Avoid placing plants in direct line of cold drafts or excessive heat.

Fertilization

• Feed your plants with a balanced, water-soluble fertilizer, but do so sparingly. The lower light conditions of most bathrooms mean plants will grow more slowly, requiring less frequent feeding.

Maintenance

• Regularly clean the leaves to remove dust and debris, allowing the plants to breathe and absorb light effectively.
• Prune any yellow or damaged leaves to keep the plant healthy and promote new growth.
• Keep an eye out for spider mites, mealybugs, aphids, scale insects, fungus gnat, thrips, and whiteflies.