Ming Veevers-Carter

Ming Veevers-Carter is a florist who represented New Covent Garden Market at the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show. 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.

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. These are large floral displays built on armatures.

Veevers-Carter wrote Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging (1990), which Library Journal called a "useful as an idea book and as a guide to the techniques and materials used in flower arranging."

Selected bibliography
1990 - Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806973005

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

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

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

1994 - Step by Step Art of Dried Flowers. Whitecap, B.C. ISBN 9781551100746

1995 - Dried Flower Arranging. Coombe Books, Bristol. ISBN 9781858138299

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