The very tips of fuchsias grow very easily struck early in wet sand, and will flower the same year.

Kind friends will give you these, and if they will also give you "tips" of white, yellow, and blue Marguerites (this last is _Agathea celestis_), these strike as easily as chrysanthemums, and are delightful afterwards to cut from.

They are not very tender, though not quite hardy.
For the few pots and pans and boxes of cuttings and seedlings which you require, it is well worth while to get a small stock of good compost from a nursery gardener; leaf mould, peat, and sand, whether for seedlings or cuttings.

Always _sink_ your pot in a second covering.

Either have your pots sunk in a box of sand, which you can keep damp, or have small pots sunk in larger ones.