Ming Veevers-Carter is a florist who represented New Covent Garden Market at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show.[1] 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.[2][3][4]
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.[5] These are large floral displays built on armatures.[5]
Veevers-Carter wrote Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging (1990),[6] which Library Journal called a "useful as an idea book and as a guide to the techniques and materials used in flower arranging."[7]
1990 - Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806973005[7][8]
1990 - Festive Decorations: Over 80 Decorative Ideas for Flowers, Wreaths, and Trees. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806974743[9]
1990 - Decorating with Nature: Trees, Wreaths, Garlands & Arrangements for a Beautiful Home. Merehurst, London. ISBN 9781853910708[10]
1993 - 200 Easy Flower Arrangements. With Jane Newdick. Premier Editions, London. ISBN 9781897730157[11]
1994 - Step by Step Art of Dried Flowers. Whitecap, B.C. ISBN 9781551100746[12]
1995 - Dried Flower Arranging. Coombe Books, Bristol. ISBN 9781858138299[13]
1998 - The Complete Flower Arranger. With Jane Newdick. Quadrillion Publishing. New York. ISBN 9781858333090[14]