As much as I adore my moth orchids, there's no doubt they are some of the fussiest houseplants. To achieve a gorgeous display of long-lasting blooms, you have to get the conditions just right. And if anything in their growing environment slightly changes, they'll drop all of their flowers and quickly wilt.
It's for this reason I've been considering some alternatives to growing orchids – enter the anthurium, also known as the flamingo flower. It's another indoor flowering plant that puts on a display for several months at a time, in fact often longer than orchids. It's demands far less maintenance and has intriguing waxy blooms (or spathes, which are modified leaves) in bright colors – you're likely most familiar with the red anthurium (like this from The Sill).
