April is a great time to hike in Marin County. Wildflowers abound, especially after good winter rains. They often have wonderful common names. Hiking this spring, I found many beautiful California ...

For fresh parents, selecting a name for their newborn is the inaugural major decision they'll make on their parenting journey. However, recent research predicting a surge in floral baby names might ...

Celebrities are wild about flower names for girls. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have a little girl named Daisy, and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner share daughter Violet. Meanwhile, “Naked Chef” alum ...

In considering the meaning of names, William Shakespeare used a rose as an example. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," he wrote in "Romeo and Juliet." Even before Shakespeare's time, ...