sorry but no plants will grow with no light

How about plastic houseplant? If there's almost no light, plastic or real plant have no different anyway.

I'd opt for something plastic.

No its not a dark room and no to plastic. *L* Just something that doesnt need strong light.

silk flowers

Nothing will do well in the area you described, I'm sorry.

If you insist to have real plant, you need 2 plants and at least 15watt led light inside. Switch the plants every week. You can try anthurium, philo, peace lily, or some others.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/127367495691838195/

These might survive. They won't grow. Eventually, you will have to swap them out for another. Go to Pinterest and search "plants for low light indoors". Lots of pages will come up.

Can you get a lamp for you vanity and just keep it on during the daylight hours. Many plants would then be fine with the artificial light. If there that little window space it's probably more than humid enough.

Pinterest is not a place to get serious gardening advice from. It's just a fluff article with lots of plant cliches.

As others have said ... there aren't any.

Your best option is a fake plant ... and there are some very realistic-looking ones out there if you search a bit. They do tend to be pricier than the crappy looking ones.

While a lamp for the bathroom vanity could indeed do the job, most folks would not want to "clutter" the vanity surface with such.

Your only other viable options are to either:

Get a cheap "disposable" plant which you will replace every so often.

-or-

As Gudang advised, get two plants. One needs to be kept on a bright windowsill or under good artificial lighting. The other goes in your bathroom. Switch the plants out on a weekly basis.

sorry hell kitchen whatever, the article I bookmarked is a good one and I have been gardening inside and out for 50 years! Not all Pinterest is bad, it is just an easy way to find a lot of articles.

I have no doubt you're a successful gardener, but that article was a lot of dribble. It even has a list of plants that supposedly clean the air of your room. People read that and think placing a plant in their bedroom will purify the air, when in reality, it would take a room crammed full of plants to even make a statistical difference.

I'm glad you enjoy Pinterest and find articles there. Enjoy it in good health

No offense meant towards you. Nothing personal

But unfortunately Sherry, Pinterest also puts forth a lot of misinformation like this: that plants can live in a room w/out light.

Another popular untruth they're perpetuating is growing succulents in glass terrariums. They look great but are doomed since they lack the 2 most important conditions for succulents to do well: fast draining mix & good air circulation. Many come to the Cactus & Succulent forum for our help w/ their succulents failing in terrariums & they can't imagine why.

HellKitchenGuy Manuel is right, they seem to like to perpetuate bad gardening advice all over very often.

Slothy, they're really isn't much you can grow w/out light, folks are not exaggerating.

You don't seem to believe us, so go buy a Pothos & try that. Pretty indestructible except to overwatering, cheap & common, so if it fails you can just buy another w/out any problem.

If everyone will reread the op post and her answers, she DOES NOT want a fake plant of any kind. She does have a window in the bath, she just stated that it doesn't give much light.

Personally my favorites are snake plant, cast iron plant, and pothos. Even one of the very small palms will work.

If you will read my first post, you will see that I told her they won't last and that it will have to be either tossed or moved eventually.

If you don't like Pinterest, Google low light plants. You will get the same misinformation there on some pages as on some Pinterest posts. It is easier to save a picture of something you like on Pinterest.

Is the light left on all day or only on when in use? Sansevieria or pothos will survive a long time in low light if exciting growth is not expected.

I've been successful keeping pothos in a low light situation. All 3 of mine are in water (no soil). They aren't large, lush plants but do provide enough greenery to make their room seem "alive". I have one in each of two bathrooms and a third plant in a guest bedroom where the blinds are nearly closed. When a strand(s) gets too long, I trim it to a shorter length and, if any of the existing strands are beginning to look pitiful, I replace them with the newly cut one. These plants have been growing this way for about 13 years. Of course with their periodic replacement, these may not actually be the originals but they're certainly cuttings from the originals.

Juneroses, your pictures are EXACTLY what I have been pointing out.

Juneroses, that's a great solution, a little jar of cuttings would be much easier (and cheaper) to switch out than a whole plant in soil and it sounds like you have a constant supply of replacements. Sherry, as far as your Pinterest article goes, you look at a post that says that these plants can survive with "zero" sunlight but you, as an experienced gardener, know that that is hyperbole, the post didn't lead to an article for me but I'm assuming the caveat would be that you would have to have some artificial light in that bathroom for a good part of most of the day but inexperienced gardeners don't know that, they think they can just stick that plant in a dark bathroom and it'll be fine. The folks who post on here just want to make sure they are giving people accurate information and with Pinterest that is often not the case.

I use bright white LEDs by the windows, which is the only place in my apartment that gets any real sunlight, even in summer, and is where most of my plants live when they're indoors. Now that my plants are actually nice to look at, I've decided that the nicer ones will take turns spending a few days at a time in my bedroom to give me something green to look at when I wake up.

Supplemental light works quite well, so long as it's the right kind. Look for bright white bulbs. I use a cheap plug in timer so I don't have to remember anything, and I run the lights about 9 hours a day in winter and 12-14 in summer.

Look for the light frequency on the little graphic on the back of the package or on the bulb's base. You need the frequency to be 4500 or higher, which is usually called cool light. Regular incandescent bulbs are iffy because they burn hot, so stick with compact CFLs or LEDs, which are much cooler, last longer, and are very efficient. The nice thing is that you can put one of these bright low-watt bulbs in just about any table lamp. A swing arm lamp would let you change the angle from time to time so the whole plant gets some light. The light needs to shine directly on the leaves, and needs to be close to the plant to be effective.

If you will notice the OP has not been back since Wednesday. Original post on Monday, a reply on Wednesday to all the fake plant lovers, and then nothing. I guess the OP got tired of all the "you can't do it posts" and no real help except for a few. The OP did not say that it will live and grow forever plant was wanted. A REAL plant just to decorate with was wanted.

This is not different from one for the bath and everyone that buys poinsettias for Christmas and throws them out after New Years. A neighbor up the street buys two Boston ferns every spring and throws them to the curb in September.

Well, I also hate when people throw out poinsettias. I find it to be the easiest plant to grow. I had one that was taking over my kitchen window space, until one night I burned it by accidentally using undiluated miracle grow fertilizer

Sherry,

I have a different mindset and was simply sharing my opinion.

I get plants and I expect them to live as long as I do, if not longer.

Therefore, if it were me, and I wanted the look of a plant but could not provide anything to keep it healthy, I would get a plastic one.

Hense my option that I posted.

If someone wants to get mad and leave because they aren't getting the answer they want, that's fine.

I stand by what originally said.

I also don't throw out plants. However, I think that to ignore the poster's question and post our idea as the only "one true way" is rude. There are a lot of people that do buy throw-away plants, (I rescue the ferns when I see them at the curb) (I also have rescued mums) that is why the big box stores have so many seasonal plants. If that is what they like (and no different from buying cut flowers) it is providing jobs at the nurseries and stores.

I also stand by what I said.

why....what point are you making by your comment?

Sherry....good for you, girl. You make excellent sense on behalf of OP.

Thank you rhizo. I find it bothers me on all threads no matter what the question if the question asked is not what is answered. Now, if she had asked about keeping one alive and growing........

thank you everyone. I love the pothose in the glass container with seaglass. I wanted to have a container with seaglass in the bathroom anyway so this is a great way to do that thank you.

Your welcome Slothy Poo. I thought Juneroses pothos looked great also.

Hi. Wanted to respond to this thread when it first came out, but too many immediate chores to do! I don't know if this will be helpful, but I have a low light bathroom. We live in Maine and the bathroom faces directly north. The sun does shine in the summer and winter (no deciduous or evergreen trees in the way), but it is, to be honest, very low light. The windows are narrow. In Maine the sun gets so low on the horizon that our north facing light is very dim. I'd tried growing other Marantas, or prayer plants, but they all died until I put one in this bathroom. I believe the thing it loves most is the humidity. In fact, this summer it's doing well, but not quite as happy as winter when the light is very low. I assumed it needed to be repotted, but it had plenty of room for roots. i believe the difference was in the summer we keep the windows open, which lowers the humidity. I have a husband who showers without any fans or ventilation, despite the moisture damage >:-( , and in the winter it loves the humidity created.

So now it is in a huge pot, and waiting for those low light moist days of winter! Hope it helps.