Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Fiji wedding bouquet - What flowers are these?, 0 by Tigerlily09

Tigerlily09 wrote:
Hello tropical gardeners,

I'm a newbie to DG who lives in the Frozen North. I love tropical plants, partly because I got married in Fiji 6 years ago. I do well with ordinary housplants such as pothos and spider plant and the dieffenbachia I received as a gift is ready to bust through the ceiling. (I really need to air layer it but I've never done it before and I'm nervous!) I'm especially proud of my spathipyllum which flowers even in January. I'd love to branch (hehee!) out into some more difficult indoor gardening and I could really use some advice. I'm including some pictures of my wedding bouquet. Could you identify the flowers and tell me if they are insanely hard to grow, especially without a greenhouse or even a yard?

I'm crazy about plumeria but I'm not sure growing those are quite within my skill at this point. I think the pink ones are a type orchid but I'm not sure about the red and orange ones. The resort in Fiji features gorgeous lobster claw heliconia so I'm wondering if that might be a relative.

Maybe I'll just start with a Meyer lemon and a grow lite and go from there. I'd really like some plants that will flower in the middle of winter. How do you all feel about jasmine? Or maybe vanilla? Yummmmmm...

Thanks!!

TL


p.s. you can see a bit of my red sundress in the photo along with my lei (salusalu in Fijian).