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i want to know where to get the drainage dishes bellow the terra cotta pots. anyone know?

In successfully raising several succulents I have learned that they will only thrive if they're exposed to direct sunlight at least part or most of the day. So if you put them in the bathroom, make sure they receive direct sun, especially flowering succulents.

unfortunately, I am a serial plant killer... but i would love to know where to find a towel rack like that. Anyone know?

I agree with John H; they need direct sunlight. I have several succulents on window ledge in my bathroom. They are flourishing there, and it gets very humid in there (I have basically no air circulation in my bathroom, especially in the winter months when I can't even open the window).

Well, the first step to being able to keep a succulent alive is being able to tell it apart from a cactus.

The cactus is a type of succulent. So I don't think they'll have much of a problem with that.

That towel rack is awesome! Where from...

Succulent plants are the only type that stay alive in my place. I've had 2 in the bathroom for 2 years now.

Hmm. Naked body plus cactii...

No thanks.

If you have good air circulation and light in your restroom, I recommend lucky bamboo. Those suckers will survive nearly anything, but I noticed they flourish when they receive fresh air. While I allow mine to sit in water and rocks, I also mist the leaves occasionally, so I imagine they'd appreciate the steam from the shower.

Yes, many types of cactus are succulents, but this does not mean that succulents are cacti. Most are not.

I've seen them in some hotel bathrooms in europe with no windows. Would guess they have twice as many plants as they do bathrooms and have some kind of rotation schedule. Think I may do the same in mine when construction is complete.

I also plea for a source of the towel bar/ladder!

I agree that bamboo is great in the bathroom, especially if you have a window that opens. I put a pinch of miracle-gro potting soil in with the water and rocks so they'll live longer. I don't bother misting, since they get shower steam at least once a day.

aloe loves the bathroom. it'll survive lack of direct light as well, although indirect is necessary. i kept mine in the bathroom under a skylight in sunny arizona and it was very content there (i never watered it either), but it also lives happily in an east facing bedroom on a high recessed shelf in partially cloudy norcal.

I want to know if that is a wall-mounted sink, and if yes, where can I get one?!

I have had the same succulents in my bathroom for 6 mos. now and they seem to be doing fine. I water bi-weekly and there is no sunlight.

I find that look a bit jarring. My first instinct when thinking of a bathroom is to see a rather placid oasis-like bathroom with watery colours, but the cactus simply reminds me a desert. That's just me though...

i'm no plant expert, but for the sake of the potted cactus i keep in my living room, i have to ask: isn't the appeal of the cactus is that it's low maintenance and actually doesn't like humidity? you see the kinds of cacti featured in that photo in deserts, not tropical rainforests.

i have a shower w/ a window. i've had succulants in there forever. they love it. plus, it's unexpected. having a plant in a bathroom gives it a spa feel.

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My bathroom doesn't have enough sunlight for most succulents (tiny window, very high up the wall, bright but utterly indirect). However, my trusty philodendron adores the bathroom. It's flourishes--and needs watering very infrequently too! Granted, you actually have to try to kill a philodendron, but still. I've trained one up a stake and the other dangles from a shelf, and it makes my bathroom much prettier.

This could work if you get a tropical succulent. My boyfriend successfully had a beautiful Hatiora salicornioides (drunkard's dream) hanging in his shower in front of a window and it flourished!

I once kept a cactus in a truly closet-like room where it received almost no light. It lived but only flourished when I would put it in direct light for sunnings. I think lucky bamboo is a much better plant for a bathroom space (and yeah, the nakedness needless equation doesn't work for me either)

Put air plants in the bathroom. They need the mist and also warmth and will do well. However, they also need light and fresh air, so a bathroom with a window is preferred. Mount your air plant on a cork plaque or piece of driftwood and hang it in the window and you may even see flowers.