Teresa Sabankaya is a florist, gardener, teacher, presenter, and author. Her floral studio has been providing professional floral design services for elegant lifestyles and events in the Monterey Bay and San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty years, designing florals for daily enjoyment, weddings, and other milestones. She is most notably recognized for the creation of her modern-day posies, which are garden-style bouquets that tell a story in the language of flowers. Her work has been featured in numerous Hoffman Media publications, including Victoria magazine, The Art of Flowers, and Living with Roses as well as in Country Gardens, Elle, and Sunset magazines, and, The New York Times. Additionally, her wedding and event flowers have been highlighted in industry media outlets such as Green Wedding Shoes, Brides magazine, Grey Likes Weddings, and many more. She has been an annual participant in the prestigious Bouquets to Art, DeYoung Museum at Golden Gate Park, and Monterey Museum of Art. She is also very active as a presenter and speaker at flower and garden shows, garden clubs, and various other flower and garden-themed events nationwide. Her annual Posy Atelier and Garden Parties are highly popular events that she hosts in her garden as well as at other locations.

Teresa lives in and runs her floral studio in Bonny Doon, a special little enclave set among the redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with her husband, Nezih, and their fur baby girl, a Frenchie named Violet. She has two grown daughters who live nearby. She enjoys any time spent in the garden and especially loves to entertain there with her friends and family. Teresa would love it if you would stay in touch with her. Here's how: Teresa's main website, teresasabankaya.com, is where you can shop for posies and much more, all delivered nationwide. You can also sign up for her newsletter, titled Gifts from the Garden, which she sends quarterly and is filled with floral beauty, inspiration and insight, as well as a schedule of upcoming events, and of course, loyalty discounts. At modernfloriography.

com, you'll find the comprehensive floral dictionary, which is updated regularly with new meanings for flowers that have been around for a while, and also newly introduced hybrids. When you don't have either of her books handy, just pop in and learn the meanings of over 2,000 flowers and plants.