Welcome Alex,
I also will agree with the consensus that picking plants based on your conditions and reading up on individual culture sheets is a good plan.
I have a Dendrobium Hamana lake and it grew fairly well both inside my GH and in my house. It also blooms readily, is floriferous, and is nicely fragrant. If you are fine with the other dendrobiums (assuming they nobile types) then that one should be a piece of cake.
Phalaenopsis were a bit of a problem for me when I first started my collection.
They can be a bit issue prone as mistakes with monopodial orchids (leaves emanating from a central point rather than canes on a rhizome) are not easily remedied in my experience.
That said, I tend to have a bias against them as that is the genera I’ve had the most trouble with myself.
The biggest piece of advice I have for you if you do get any Phalaenopsis is to never let water get into the crown (top where the leaves meet) or spaces between the leaves as this will sometimes cause a usually fatal rot. Think of it like the opposite of a bromeliad.
These orchids normally grow “upside down” which is why they don’t rot in nature in addition to having high amounts of air circulation outside.
The other plants you mentioned I don’t know much about.
If your vendor has Cymbidiums orchids and you have a very sunny space, they might be worth taking a look at in the future as I find they behave the most like a regular tropical plant. They do get large though but I heard there are some nice miniature types.
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