Help, please!

Posted by CjK on September 09, 2004

In Reply to: Help, please! posted by R. Berg on September 09, 2004

: : : The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and **the dark flat rosettes** where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine.

: : : What are *rosettes* in this sentence? Why they are in the lawns? And how they concern with the daisy plants?
: : : Can anybody make the sentence esier? Thank you very much.

: : Rosettes can be just leaves.

: : The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat leaves where the daisy plants had been, seemed to shine.

: Mowing would remove the flower stalks from daisy plants. A circle of leaves pointing outward, close to the ground, would remain. This circle is what the writer is calling a rosette. "Rosette" refers to its shape.

Thank you very much. :-)