"See," she said, beaming. "I have just planted them this morning, some for you, some for me." And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction" (Tan 20)
The weeds and the flowers represent Rose's culture and colonist culture, but we see Rose's mother, tending to the weeds, and Rose then sort of lets go of her husbands (colonist) cultrue
Rose's mother reminds her of the good in her culture, and that it should be celebrated and not weeded out of ones life