Recommend me a plant please!

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I have a lovely wooden shelf in my bathroom that's just perfect for a trailing plant. I can only think of Ivy for that rich green colour and trailing style but the plants were too small for the pot that I have. Plus, I have no clue whether Ivy is suitable for indoors.

Can anyone recommend anything?

A Boston fern, not really trailing but the fronds do dangle or asparagus fern which is feathery looking and does trail.

Satin pothos would be my vote

An asparagus fern. Lovely feathery foliage. Would love a humid, bright bathroom.

I do love ferns, but be warned - they are arses. Boston not too bad. Bird’s Nest a bit easier still.

Maidenhairs are twats. The only one I’ve ever managed to keep looking decent is the one that clearly hasn’t read the conditions it is supposed to like - it is looking great after being in my baking greenhouse all summer after I got so hacked off with yet another one dying on me, so just chucked it out of the way. It is now living in the conservatory, rather than the not too sunny nice humid bathroom it should like. 🤣

Thank you!

I'm not sure where I'll find such arses and twats beauties - my local garden centre hopefully!

Thank you.

I'm growing a monstera adansonii in my bathroom which is a vine, so it'll trail if you don't stake it. Often mislabelled as m. oblique. You can tell the difference, if it costs a few quid it's adansonii, if it's a couple of thousand it's obliqua.

I've got a couple of spider plants on my bathroom window-ledge, one is the offspring of the other (and I've a few more from the original too).

Your garden centre may have a surprising selection for you. Whatever you choose do check it out - how much light it wants, how much dampness in the air. If you’re more keen on indestructability than rareness then a spider plant will never let you down and the dangling babies are really sweet

That's what puts me off spider plants...all the babies and finding good homes for them. They are pretty though.

spider plant or pothos (devils ivy) you can get a nice gold variegated version as well as the ordinary white variegated or plain green. The variegated ones need a bity more light though or they turn palin green

PS I agree about ferns, they really are arses

I’ve got a nice trailing plant from IKEA, that grows and grows that I think is a devils ivy. Definitely low maintenance as I’m quite slack.

I have a pothos (devils ivy) in a fairy small pot- maybe 25-30cm across. Its grown several tendrils- the longest over 2m long! I agree that a variegated version is very interesting.

I have three different varieties of spider plant in the house, all with huge families, but I've just left them attached so far. 😂They look nice. Hopefully as long as I keep feeding them, they'll manage.

Philodendron hederaceum (syn scandens), fully trailing like Ivy, dark green glossy heart shaped leaves.

Tradescantia - gorgeous colours, and relatively indestructible!

I have a staghorn fern in my bathroom (Helpfully identified by someody on here actually!) it seems to love the conditons
as it's grown a lot and looks lovely draping over the windowsill...

Yes, maidenhairs are the worst.

I have a nice dangly succulent - sedum burro/donkey’s tail. Very pretty and easy to care for.

Spider plants are also a good one, and then they have little dangly spider babies.

I got a maidenhead and by sheer good luck put it in a place where it was happy. I gave to someone to care for while I was on holiday (previously I'd left it in the sink under a dripping tap when i was away), I came home and it had one frond left. It's taken a year to come back. It's a lovely plant, but obviously a bit of a diva.

The philodendron is lovely and so is the tradescantia, but quite different. I think the philodendron would just edge it for me.

I ordered some sedum burrito from etsy. They arrived as little green 'beans', but are growing away now. I love how they look, like green dreadlocks.

I got a maidenhead and by sheer good luck put it in a place where it was happy. I gave to someone to care for while I was on holiday (previously I'd left it in the sink under a dripping tap when i was away), I came home and it had one frond left. It's taken a year to come back. It's a lovely plant, but obviously a bit of a diva.

😂They really are arses of the highest order.

I have a gorgeous sedum burrito which I bought on FB Marketplace as a substantial plant at a very lucky price - but it's a long old wait for them to grow if you don't buy mature.

Yes, took the a while to get going but took off like a rocket when they did. I swear they get longer overnight. Buying them as beans was very inexpensive but it did test my patience.