Ming Veevers-Carter

Veevers-Carter was born in the Seychelles, and lived there for nine years. Her parents were Mark and Wendy Veevers-Carter.^[1][2][3] She represented New Covent Garden Market at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show.^[2] She designed a floral portrait of the Queen which was the centrepiece of 10,000 flowers and foliage stems in a display called "Behind Every Great Florist". Photographs of this with the Queen appeared in the press, and the display won a gold medal and the Royal Horticultural Society's New Design award.^[4][5][6][7]

Veevers-Carter established her eponymous company in 1986, which then became a part of the Event Concept Group in 2017.^[8] Her work now focusses on creating floral installations for events at places such as the National Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern and Victoria and Albert Museum.^[9] These are large floral displays built on armatures.^[9] Florist Robbie Honey was one of Veever-Carter's students.^[10]

Veevers-Carter wrote Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging (1990),^[11] which Library Journal called a "useful as an idea book and as a guide to the techniques and materials used in flower arranging."^[12] She has written a number of other flower arranging books.^[13]

1990 - Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806973005^[12][14]

1990 - Festive Decorations: Over 80 Decorative Ideas for Flowers, Wreaths, and Trees. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806974743^[15]

1990 - Decorating with Nature: Trees, Wreaths, Garlands & Arrangements for a Beautiful Home. Merehurst, London. ISBN 9781853910708^[16]

1993 - 200 Easy Flower Arrangements. With Jane Newdick. Premier Editions, London. ISBN 9781897730157^[17]

1994 - Step by Step Art of Dried Flowers. Whitecap, B.C. ISBN 9781551100746^[18]

1995 - Dried Flower Arranging. Coombe Books, Bristol. ISBN 9781858138299^[19]

1998 - The Complete Flower Arranger. With Jane Newdick. Quadrillion Publishing. New York. ISBN 9781858333090^[20]