A beginner's guide to growing flowers to decorate your home

Based just south of Hobart in Tasmania, Bec Shelley grows and sells flower and vegetable seeds. ( Supplied: Veggie & Flower Garden Seeds )

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Flowers can be a great way to bring more colour into your home, but store-bought varieties can also be expensive and have a big environmental footprint .

Growing your own cut flowers (blooms bred for use in vases and arrangements) is a fun way around this, and while it might sound intimidating, incorporating blooms into your garden space or even pots can be simpler than you think.

Filling a vase with flowers grown in your own garden can be very satisfying. ( ABC News: Tegan Osborne )

Royal Botanic Garden Sydney horticulturalist Madeline Ward grows flowers at work and at home, where she usually has something in bloom.