keep in mind that aquaflora will give you roughly 4 times the plant mass as the tropica versions, they are the highest quality plants i've seen. They're also the cleanest. Anything else you risk getting snails and sometimes transient invasive species (some floating plants, riccia, various mosses)
But if you are just starting with plants, you may want to try getting your hands on a trimmings/plantlet package from a member here. Just browse the classifieds, you'll notice several of the same people keep posting or have very long threads they keep reopening every time they got more plants to sell. It'll get you started and you can just expand or replace plants once you get the hang of it.
Biggest tip i can give is to plant sparsely at first and let stems grow out, if you bunch the trimmings too close together, they'll choke eachother out of light and look crappy.
Also King Ed's could also set you up with some easy to grow plants that'll fit together nicely, just dont ask too many questions because often times its response is more confusion and more purchases being pushed on due to misunderstandings

Their Planted tank maintnence guy is awesome though, he's never blown me off when i asked questions and always answered thoroughly (this was before i found fishie forums though)