Where I source the seeds for The Flower Growing Year — and where you can buy them too

Veggie & Flower Garden Seeds - www.veggiegardenseeds.com.au

One of the questions I get asked most often is: where do you buy your seeds?

It's a good question. Finding quality flower seeds in Australia — especially the less common varieties — can be surprisingly hard. Garden centres tend to stock the same reliable handful. Online can feel overwhelming. And if you're a beginner, you often don't even know what you're looking for.

For years I grew my own seeds on the flower farm — but the course was a completely different beast. Every month I needed to track down specific varieties in bulk, and that meant relying on a patchwork of suppliers. The uncertainty, the inconsistency, the hours spent sourcing, the packaging up when they arrived — it was a struggle. Not because the seeds were bad, but because there was no single place I could trust to have exactly what I needed, month after month, to the standard I wanted for my students.

So I went looking for the right supplier. And I found Bec and Sam.

Veggie & Flower Garden Seeds is a family owned and operated seed store based in Tasmania. They grow some of their own seed and specialise in varieties that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere. Their website alone is worth a visit — the photography is beautiful, with the kind of flowers and imagery that make you stop scrolling. Their range is extensive. Sweet peas, poppies, cornflowers, nigella, snapdragons, cosmos, strawflowers, and one of my favourites that's due for a comeback — Clarkia — and so much more. They also stock vegetables, herbs and Australian natives, and offer Australia wide delivery including WA and Tasmania, with carbon neutral shipping.

I've been working with Bec and Sam behind the scenes for this intake of The Flower Growing Year, and I am now genuinely excited about the seeds going out to students this year. The selection we've put together for the twelve month growing calendar is something I'm really proud of.

If you're not in The Flower Growing Year but you're looking for somewhere to buy quality flower seeds — I can't recommend them highly enough. You can find them at veggiegardenseeds.com.au

And if you are in The Flower Growing Year — lucky you. You're about to have a very good growing year.

A note on this post: I'm not paid to recommend Bec and Sam. I chose to work with them because they're genuinely brilliant, and I tell you about them because you asked.