Ming Veevers-Carter
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Ming Veevers-Carter is a florist and author, 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. Veevers-Carter's creates floral installations for events at places such as the National Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern and Victoria and Albert Museum. She is also an author, and wrote Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging (1990), as well as a number of other books on flower arranging.
Life
Veevers-Carter was born in the Seychelles, and lived there for nine years. Her parents were Mark and Wendy Veevers-Carter.{{Cite web |title=About — Veevers Carter Floral Design |url=https://www.veeverscarter.com/aboutus |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Veevers Carter |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=60 Seconds with floral designer Ming Veevers-Carter |url=http://theflorist.co.uk/florist-talk-blog/sixty-seconds/1646-60-seconds-floral-designer-ming-veevers-carter |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522023400/http://theflorist.co.uk/florist-talk-blog/sixty-seconds/1646-60-seconds-floral-designer-ming-veevers-carter |archive-date=22 May 2016 |website=The Florist}}{{Cite web |date=2018-04-09 |title=Astove Atoll, Seychelles February 2018 |url=https://blog.millingtondrake.com/astove-atoll-seychelles-february-2018/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Tarquin Millington-Drake |language=en-US}} She 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.{{Cite web |last=Foggett |first=Clare |date=25 May 2016 |title=New Covent Garden Steal The Show At Chelsea |url=https://theenglishgarden.telegraph.co.uk/plants/new-covent-garden-steal-the-show-at-chelsea/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929021845/https://theenglishgarden.telegraph.co.uk/plants/new-covent-garden-steal-the-show-at-chelsea/ |archive-date=29 September 2023 |access-date=28 September 2023 |website=The English Garden}}{{Cite news |last=Vincent |first=Alice |date=26 May 2016 |title=New Covent Garden: behind the scenes at the UK's biggest flower stall |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardens-to-visit/new-covent-garden-behind-the-scenes-at-the-uks-biggest-flower-st/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423002646/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardens-to-visit/new-covent-garden-behind-the-scenes-at-the-uks-biggest-flower-st/ |archive-date=23 April 2021 |access-date=28 September 2023 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}{{Cite web |last=Wheeldon |first=Rona |date=20 May 2016 |title=Florist Friday: Interview with Ming Veevers Carter of Veevers Carter |url=https://flowerona.com/florist-friday-interview-with-ming-veevers-carter-of-veevers-carter/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816222940/https://flowerona.com/florist-friday-interview-with-ming-veevers-carter-of-veevers-carter/ |archive-date=16 August 2022 |access-date=29 September 2023 |website=Flowerona |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Wheeler |first=Alex |date=2016-05-24 |title=Chelsea Flower Show 2016: Photos of the Queen, Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal visit |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chelsea-flower-show-2016-photos-queen-prince-william-kate-middletons-royal-visit-1561677 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=International Business Times UK |language=en}}
Veevers-Carter established her eponymous company in 1986, which then became a part of the Event Concept Group in 2017.{{Cite web |last=Marshall-Foster |first=Caroline |date=2022-10-11 |title=Veevers Carter welcomes Joanna Rhodes as new MD |url=https://www.floristrytradeclub.co.uk/post/veevers-carter-welcomes-joanna-rhodes-as-new-md |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Floristry Trade Club |language=en}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Lemon |first=Hannah |date=May 2018 |title=The Perks of Being a Wallflower |url=https://issuu.com/runwildmedia/docs/m_f_may_18/16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230929193952/https://issuu.com/runwildmedia/docs/m_f_may_18/16 |archive-date=29 September 2023 |access-date=29 September 2023 |work=Marylebone & Fitrovia |publisher=Runwild Media Group |pages=16–17 |via=Issuu |issue=24}} These are large floral displays built on armatures. Florist Robbie Honey was one of Veever-Carter's students.{{Cite web |title=Authors |url=https://www.clearviewbooks.com/authors |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Clearview Books |language=en-GB}}
Veevers-Carter wrote Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging (1990),{{cite journal |date=1990 |title=Review: Ming Veevers-Carter, Celebration Flowers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4zyAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Ming+Veevers-Carter%22 |journal=Magazine Home |publisher=Hudson Publishing Company |volume=36 |issue=7–12 |page=13 |access-date=15 April 2019 |via=Google Books}} which Library Journal called a "useful as an idea book and as a guide to the techniques and materials used in flower arranging."{{Cite journal |last=Daubenspeck |first=Pamela R. |date=15 April 1990 |title=Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging (Book) |url= |journal=Library Journal |volume=115 |issue=7 |pages=114 |issn=0363-0277}} She has written a number of other flower arranging books.{{Cite web |title=Ming Veevers-Carter |url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/937464.Ming_Veevers_Carter |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
Selected bibliography
1990 - Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806973005{{Cite book |last=Veevers-Carter |first=Ming |title=Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging |publisher=Sterling Publishing |year=1990 |isbn=9780806973005 |location=New York |language=en |oclc=20491597}}
1990 - Festive Decorations: Over 80 Decorative Ideas for Flowers, Wreaths, and Trees. Sterling Publishing, New York. ISBN 9780806974743{{Cite book |last=Veevers-Carter |first=Ming |title=Festive Decorations: Over 80 Decorative Ideas for Flowers, Wreaths, and Trees. |publisher=Sterling Publishing |year=1990 |isbn=9780806974743 |location=New York |language=en |oclc=21677027}}
1990 - Decorating with Nature: Trees, Wreaths, Garlands & Arrangements for a Beautiful Home. Merehurst, London. ISBN 9781853910708{{Cite book |last=Veevers-Carter |first=Ming |title=Decorating with Nature: Trees, Wreaths, Garlands & Arrangements for a Beautiful Home |publisher=Merehurst |year=1990 |isbn=9781853910708 |location=London |language=en |oclc=26362886}}
1993 - 200 Easy Flower Arrangements. With Jane Newdick. Premier Editions, London. ISBN 9781897730157{{Cite book |last1=Veevers-Carter |first1=Ming |title=200 Easy Flower Arrangements |last2=Newdick |first2=Jane |publisher=Premier Editions |year=1993 |isbn=9781897730157 |location=London |language=en |oclc=41843980}}
1994 - Step by Step Art of Dried Flowers. Whitecap, B.C. ISBN 9781551100746{{Cite book |last=Veevers-Carter |first=Ming |title=Step by Step Art of Dried Flowers |publisher=Whitecap |year=1994 |isbn=9781551100746 |location=British Columbia |language=en |oclc=670287778}}
1995 - Dried Flower Arranging. Coombe Books, Bristol. ISBN 9781858138299{{Cite book |last=Veevers-Carter |first=Ming |title=Dried Flower Arranging |publisher=Coombe Books |year=1995 |isbn=9781858138299 |location=Bristol |language=en |oclc=36159047}}
1998 - The Complete Flower Arranger. With Jane Newdick. Quadrillion Publishing. New York. ISBN 9781858333090{{Cite book |last1=Newdick |first1=Jane |title=The Complete Flower Arranger |last2=Veevers-Carter |first2=Ming |publisher=Quadrillion Publishing |year=1998 |isbn=9781858333090 |location=New York |language=en |oclc=38990291}}
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