The long-lived flowers of the following plants make a good alternative to buying bunches of cut blooms, and if treated correctly most will provide a show of flowers the next year too. In plants such as aechmea and justicia the flowers are small and short-lived, but emerge from brightly colored and persistent bracts.
Aechmea
Anthurium
Calathea crocata
Gerbera
Hippeastrum
Justicia
Kalanchoe
Pachystachys
Paphiopedilum
Spathiphyllum
Tillandsia