However, there is one other surprising place you should consider putting plants: In the bathroom, especially if you have a window. Steamy showers and low light make bathrooms unsuitable for many plants, but there is one common houseplant that will thrive there and make your day much brighter. The Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) has a pretty narrow range in the wild, only doing well in USDA zones 9 through 11, which means they're not always ideal for growing in the garden. However, they handle being indoors very well, especially in the bathroom, and are one of several ferns that make the perfect houseplant. While a Boston fern works great as a bathroom plant, if you're looking for something different, there is a fuzzy fern variety that makes for a unique houseplant known as the rabbit's foot fern (Davallia solida var.