Madeline Hawthorne calls home a meadow abundant in plum-purple lilacs and lavender and chartreuse-green pears, and all of the woodland creatures that fill their bellies with and build their homes from this wild flora.

As the ultrabrite-cherry vodka, buttercream fragranced 2000s pirouetted into the lavender heart-tabbed 2010s, and when I first met her, San Francisco-born, Los-Angeles-raised Juliet Simms was picking lavender and twisting the stalks along with lilacs into flower crowns – laurels for her girlfriends, basking on the hood of a beat-up Volkswagen Beetle, her getaway car ("Wild Child", "My Last Whiskey Tears").

Olivia O’Brien, born and raised in the heart of southern California, has fishtail-braided bluesy cornflower R&B, plum-and-fig-nectar pop, skull-and-bow pop-punk, and as of these days, art nouveau-orchid alternative.