Since my original post wasn’t very detailed at all, I drew a sketch of what I envisioned the final product to look like, along with a schematic.
I finalized on having something like a flowerpot, where a fabricated plant extends out of the pot via a servo motor if a photosensor senses the surrounding light as “high.” The values for high and low light would be determined through calibration. If the light value is sensed as “low” after “high”, the servo motor would move the plant down, and the plant would hide. The plant would remain in that state until sensing the light as “high” again.
