OMC: So can you identify every flower by sight?

Nicholas: Yeah, we can. Or we can just make something up. Either way.

Jennifer: People should feel free to come to us with all of their gardening questions.

OMC: So you three must have amazing gardens?

Nicholas: My dad has the greenest thumb I've ever seen. I got none of that, so I put it into my music.

Mike: I just had a poinsettia die.

Jennifer: I like to call myself a "hands-off" gardener. I'm letting God tend to my garden.

OMC: Tell me about your shows. I heard you wear matching floral outfits on stage?

Jennifer: We all have matching floral suitcases full of flowers on stage with us. We try to have as many flowers as possible involved in our show. You never realize how many flowers are out there until you go shopping for clothes at a thrift store. You really can't stop the flowers. They are transcendent. And they aren't from any one era. You can buy a floral dress from the 1930s, or one from right now. They never go out of style.

Mike: I'm the "button-down guy." I don't really wear flower clothes. But I do wear a boutonniere to shows.

Nicholas: We really appreciate Mike's subtlety. And I think he wears flowered underwear.

Mike: Yes, 60% of my underwear has flowers on it.

OMC: Recently, I watched the film "Harold and Maude" and Maude asked Harold, "If you could be a flower, which flower would you be?" How would you answer that same question?

Nicholas: Foxglove. It's both a poison and a cure.

Jennifer: A chicory flower. It's blue and wild.

Mike: A hop flower, so I could be immersed in beer.

OMC: How would you describe your shows?

Nicholas: Just write down the word "festooned."

OMC: How does your band feel about playing out?

Jennifer: As a new band, we didn't know where we wanted to play and we didn't want to grovel for an opening spot, so we decided to "play-in" instead of "play-out." I converted my storefront into "Jasmine's Juke Joint" and each of us invited a group of people to come over. We did a bunch of floral songs on a stage that we found earlier that day in the street.

Nicholas: And we made cupcakes with flowers on them and sold them for $1 or a kiss.

Jennifer: The whole place was decked out in flowers.

Mike: It was festooned.

OMC: What are your aspirations as a band?

Mike: To get on The Ed Sullivan Show and to grow old together.

Jennifer: To be the house band at The Domes. I hope the citizens of Milwaukee will donate The Domes to us someday. I also hope every American will plant 4,000 flowers during their lifetime.

Nicholas: I want to see flowers growing on the moon by the time I'm dead.

OMC: All flower-talk aside, your songs are really pretty and the harmonies are superb.

Jennifer: All of our songs are three-part harmonies.

Nick: The entire point of the band was really to sing harmony. When I hear harmony, I melt. Nothing gives us more pleasure than three-part harmonies. It melts our kneecaps.

OMC: Who is the leader of your band?

Jennifer: We don't have a leader. Flowers don't operate that way.

OMC: If you could open for any band, living or dead, who would it be?

Nicholas: The International Submarine Band.

Jennifer: Bill Monroe at a County Fair or The Carter Family in a one-room schoolhouse in the Ozarks.

Mike: Cheap Trick.

OMC: What Milwaukee bands do you get into?

Jennifer: The F'n Bobcats and Bam Bam.

Nicholas: Competitorr.

Mike: Am I the only one who likes The Mosleys? (Weird silence, and then ... )

Nicholas: Fred and Ethel are great too. I saw them at Quarters a while back, and I didn't really get into them until they started doing Led Zeppelin covers.

OMC: You have a show coming up Thurs., Feb. 28 at Quarters (8:30 p.m.). What can we expect?

Jennifer: We're playing with the F'n Bobcats, and if you wear flowers, the kisses are free.

Nicholas: We'll shower you with flowers if you wear flowers.

Jennifer: We'll festoon you with flowers.

OMC: Is there anything else you want to say to Milwaukee?

Nicholas: Just remember this: you don't have to know what a flower is called to know how nice it smells.

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