RoddenBlessed Please take a few moments to tell us something about yourself and it would be real helpful to have your location (at least your zone) in that right-hand corner.
You are right in a sense. We who truly love growing plants just hate losing them. But the other side of the equation is that its a free country and Bob has every right to put whatever plants he wants wherever he wants. How many tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Poinsettias are tossed each Christmas season? How many of the big-box store-bought orchids survive the first year?
Any of those plants I listed are pretty doggone tough plants and given other necessary growing conditions, most of them will survive low light. They certainly won't flourish and perhaps the Peace Lily won't bloom, but they'll probably survive the one year that Bob wants to grow it/them.
I have a feeling that there is a story behind what Bob wants to do and I hope, if there is one, he might share it with us. For instance, why do you want a plant(s) for only a year?
