IME if you're depending on artificial light in an occupied room you want
to use plants that have low light requirements. Yes, you can provide
enough light for most plants artificially, but it may be uncomfortable
to spend any amount of time in the same room. Most "house plants" are
comfortable with fairly low light levels.

Humidity gets high occasionally in a bathroom, but most people don't use
the shower (the main cause of humidity there) more than once a day. The
rest of the time the humidity is pretty close to the rest of the house
unless you leave the door completely closed. Even then, the room is not
airtight (presumably), so the humidity will decrease when the room is
not in use.

Providing additional humidity in the house is really a good idea during
the winter, and not just for the plants. Heating the house can really
drive down the humidity to the point where it affects human health
and/or comfort.

If you used sliding glass doors, maybe you could install a shower head
and put the plants at the far end of the tub. How many people can take a
shower in a jungle? I assume the chameleons would stay around the plants
so you wouldn't be stepping on them?


paghat wrote:
... The point about humidity is well made. Most people who have bad luck with
houseplants & feel like no matter how they try they have a "black thumb,"
the culprit is actually the low humidity inside houses which suits hardly
anything but succulents. Plants in the bathroom would have a much easier
time of it.

Grow-lights might be harsh & weird for human comfort, and full-spectrum
lighting might be given a try because it can be comfy for plants & people
alike, though it needs to be either a larger tube OR left on longer to
equal the same amount of UV as a grow light.

I've thought of turning the rarely-used second bath tubs into a glassed-in
jungle for tropical plants & Jackson's chameleons -- only thought of it, I
never would.

-paghat the ratgirl