Amazing Bathroom Plant Ideas

After the chaos of the last few years, it’s fair to say we’re all feeling a little shell-shocked. No better time to embrace the very latest wellness trend: Indoor Forest Bathing and create your own tropical oasis.

Rooted in the ethos of The Japanese practice of ‘shinrin yoku’, Indoor Forest Bathing couples natural elements such as water and plants with mindful breathing, whilst imbibing natural nutritious juices at set times throughout, all designed to soothe and nurture the gut.

Forget traipsing around in freezing cold woodland. This is all about taking the physical and mental benefits of forest bathing (reduced stress, boosted wellbeing and happiness) – and bringing them inside the home. For a more Spa-Like Experience our bathroom collection has the best plants: low-maintenance, humidity-loving plants that will bring bath time to a whole new level.

Styling. bathroom, with humid loving plants is a simple way to soften a space, and warm up a cold bathroom on a winter day. Through well chosen plants in the summer you can enjoy fragrances and flowers to take you to the tropics, its such a simple way to create your own little space of calm and happiness.

These are some of the best houseplants to place in your bathroom, just choose the right varieties for your space, and these humidity-loving plants will be content.

Pilea Peperomioides is the must have plant of the moment! This delicate, fascinating houseplant with circular green leaves is super popular and really pretty in any room - try it on a sideboard or on top of a chest of drawers.  Pilea Peperomioides will add a wonderful touch of rainforest freshness and vitality to your home.
 
Super fresh looking and easy to look after, this little Pilea will grow well with very little attention. 

Available in a a wide variety of shapes and sizes, check out our huge range of Pilea plants here 

Tradescantia Nanouk is a species of spiderwort native to South America, also known as the wandering Dude ebacuse it grows rapidly and will urban wild any space. The small leaves have a shiny appearance, the underside of a leaf is purple in colour and new leaves appear purple at first, then turn green.
 
It looks beautiful in a hanging basket or container they grow and hang over the sides
 
It’s a classic 70s houseplant making a huge comeback - for good reason, its stunning easy-care nature makes it hard not to love! 

Check out a huge range of Tradescantia Houseplants here 

The Aglaonema Pink Star is a gorgous rare plant that will thrive easily in your home. Tolerant of low light conditions and easy-care they are perfect plants for the beginner but attractive collector plants for more experienced growers. 
 
Aglaonemas grow wild in the subtropical rainforests of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, where the plant is happy beneath the humid forest canopy. 
 
Pink star is a hard to find variety and coveted for it's bright foliage and variegation. If you crave the jungle look, or simply want stunning foliage in your home this is a superb choice of plant.

We love this unusual and hard to find Anthurium Clarinervium Crystallinum  - it really has that jungle look! The leaves of the Anthurium Clarinervium Crystallinum are large, bright green elognated leaves and they have a beautiful velvet texture. 
 
The white veins really stand out against the dark green of the leaves forming a stunning pattern. Native to the southern part of Mexico, and it grows naturally as an epiphyte.
 
A fantastic foliage houseplant, this Anthurium will look really amazing in any room in your home, it loves humidity so a shower room or steamy kitchen would be perfect.
 
We stock a wide variety of easy care, rare and unusual anthurium here
 

Variegated String of Hearts or Ceropegia woodii has many common names, including chain of hearts, collar of hearts, string of hearts, rosary vine, hearts-on-a-string, and sweetheart vine. A native of Africa it is a beautiful easy-care plant wIth beautiful trailing leaves. It's a very fast grower and with a little care, it will thrive in a small pot for years. 
 
In its native habitat, String of Hearts can be found growing up trees reaching lengths of 4m high before forming thicker roots as it matures. It will grow in almost any soil and light conditions making it ideal as a houseplant and its travelled around the world being cultivated into many forms. 
 
It does produce tiny purple flowers although most keep this plant for its beautiful leaves. Check out our huge range of Ceropegia here 
 

Anthurium andraeanum makes a great al houseplant with its gorgeous elongated leaves and tangled roots.
 
This plant is typically grown for the cut flower market, where the unusually shaped leaves and flowers make a great contrast to the flowers in the bouquet, but here we are selling the plant which we think is beautiful in its own right. A fantastic foliage houseplant, this Anthurium will look really amazing in any room in your home. It loves humidity, so a shower room or steamy kitchen would also be perfect for it.

Epipremnum Amplissimum is a beautiful and rare vining plant native to French Polynesia that has changing and random leaf shapes as it matures depending on the amount of light. It makes a very unusual hanging or vining plant as it can grow up or down or along a shelf! 
 
The natural habitat of Epipremnum Amplissimum is dense rainforests where it will grow up trees as a vine. The young leaves are heart-shaped, but as the plant matures they become palm-shaped and holes form in the leave like a cheese plant. The leaves are a gorgeous dark green.    
 
These plants aren’t hard to look after, they will thrive in the shade which makes them ideal if you have no experience of looking after houseplants.  It also means they aren’t hard to situate in your home, they will love any corner of any room really, in the sun or in the shade. 

A rainforest regular, Syngoniums are a native of the Americas and it really brings a touch of the exotic! Brighten up dreary days by looking at your Syngonium and imagining hot, moist heat and birds screeching, let yourself be carried away to the jungle!
 
These plants aren’t hard to look after, they will thrive in the shade which makes them ideal if you have no experience of looking after houseplants.  It also means they aren’t hard to situate in your home, they will love any corner of any room really, in the sun or in the shade.
 
The Syngonium would make a great houseplant gift for friends or family - surprise them with rainforest style!

Check out our current range of syngonium here - with new varieties always being added!

Here is our quick guide to choosing plants to suit your bathroom!

Not everyone has a bright and large bathroom so choosing an indoor plant ideal for your space can be a difficult. Likewise, for the less experienced plant parent choosing houseplants can sometimes be difficult. Knowing which indoor plants will thrive in your bathroom can be confusing and the end results sometimes be tragic! Our top tips to help you choose:

• Many lush and exotic plants can actually thrive in dark, wet environments owing to the rainforest being their natural habitat. choose low light loving plants to survive in dark bathrooms!

• Low maintenance, non drop plants are possibly the easiest to grow and near impossible to kill, the Pothos plant is virtually unkillable and well suited to darker and humid bathroom environments. Pothos come a a huge variety of shapes and sizes so you will find a plant to suit or be bold and mix and match colours and shapes.

• Shelves in bathrooms work wonders and open up a variety of hanging plants that will fill an empty space and keep plants well away form the bathroom floor so easy to maintain and clean to room. creating. plant shelf is one of the real joys of interior design and matching with coloured or matching pots and planters can add accents and style easily and make for easy updates when you fancy a seasonal change. stick to naturals or brass pots for that hotel feel.

• Create a vertical garden and transform your bare bathroom walls with a lush wall of houseplants