There are a few things that can add a touch of sometimes much needed life to our living spaces, things that make our sorroundings breathe and bring us closer to nature. On top of that list are plants. Along with water and sunlight, they are essential for life to be possible at all.

If you think about it for a moment, the bathroom certanly seems like the most logical place to have plants in. The water rich, high humidity, oasis-like retreat that is the modern bathroom, inspite of being the ideal place to have plants in, often has none. People rarely even give it any thought, erroneously precluding the possibility of having plants in bathrooms because of wrongly percieved enviromental hostility of the bathroom enviroment: common lack of direct sunlight, high humidity and various other factors that in reallity have no considerable negative impact on many plant species. On the contrary, many plant species thrive in such enviroments and can give the bathroom that fresh touch of life and an irreplacable natural feel.

Having said that, it is time to actually see which plants will find a bathroom enviroment agreeable. Depending on the amount of light your bathroom is receiving your options may be plentiful.

For bathrooms that get a lot of light you can go with orchids, azleas, ferns, beaucarneas and gardenias among others. In medium light conditions, with more diffused non-direct sunlight you can try pothos or philodendrons and where there is a little light you cannot go wrong with snake plants, rex begonias, lucky bamboo or iron plants. Consult your local garden store for more suggestions and give your bathroom the ultimate touch of nature!

Our top pick wold be lucky bamboo, really a beautiful plant.