Answer:
a bed of yellow flowers
Step-by-step explanation:
In the short story "Marigolds", the flowers represent hope. This can be perceived because the girl, who is the protagonist character of this short story, destroyed the flowers that a lady who had a very difficult and troubled life had planted and amdado. After a while the girl realized that those flowers were the only beautiful, uncorrupted thing left in that lady's life, and the flowers represented the hope that better days would come.