Fiji wedding bouquet - What flowers are these?

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).

More pictures...

This is a photo of Flo, my maid of honor. You can see more of the red flowers on the arch next to her. I wore a plumeria lei around my head like hers. Aren't the hibiscus gorgeous???

The red pointed flowers in your bouquet are some sort of Ginger..don't know the botanical name.

The pointed yellow/orange ones are a type of (Parrots Beak? ) Heliconia.

The purple and lavender flowers are an orchid...perhaps Vanda Orchids.

Hopefully jnana or Metrosideros will see this thread and have better answers.

The heliconia is probably "Andromeda"
The daisy like bloom is probably a gerbera of some sort
The lavender orchids are Vanda Miss Joaquim
The ginger flowers are common red torch gingers.

Kyle :-)

ditto what Kyle and Jasperdale said.

I agree with the above except that the red gingers aren't torch gingers-just the common red ginger.the torch gingers are so heavy and large, you could use them for a club!

Thanks so much for the prompt replies! Now, how difficult would it be for me to grow, say, heliconia or red ginger in my living room? I'm guessing it would need more humidity than I can provide. I may post in the Orchids thread about the orchid.

Vinaka/Thank you!

TL

TL I have the heliconias growing and blooming in planters downtown (DSM) Not hard to grow.The gingers take two years to really get blooming good in a pot here, and the vandas need a greenhouse and full sun 78F.


Kyle