Ming Veevers-Carter is a

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and author, who represented

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at the 2016

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. She designed a floral portrait of the

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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

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's New Design award. Veevers-Carter's creates floral installations for events at places such as the

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and

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. 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

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, and lived there for nine years. Her parents were Mark and Wendy Veevers-Carter. She represented

at the 2016

. She designed a floral portrait of the

's New Design award. Veevers-Carter established her eponymous company in 1986, which then became a part of the Event Concept Group in 2017. Her work now focusses on creating floral installations for events at places such as the

and

. These are large floral displays built on armatures. Florist Robbie Honey was one of Veever-Carter's students. Veevers-Carter wrote ''Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging'' (1990), which ''

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'' called a "useful as an idea book and as a guide to the techniques and materials used in flower arranging." She has written a number of other flower arranging books.

Selected bibliography

1990 - ''Celebration Flowers: Designing & Arranging''.

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, 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

References

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