General Description
Type of Tree: large shrub or small multi-stemmed tree.
Origin: southern China.
Height: 3 meters (10 ft).
Leaves: large, hairy on the undersides and deeply lobed. They impart a coarse texture that gives the plant a distinctive eye-catching appeal.
Flowers: large double with soft delicate petals that open as pure white and gradually turn pink during the day.
Fruits: round, hairy capsule that dries and releases fuzzy seeds.
Propagation: cuttings; confederate rose is easy to root.
Grows well: full sun or partial shade, and prefers rich, well-drained soil.
Interesting Fact
The confederate rose was at one time very common in the area of the Confederate States of America, which is how its common name was derived.
Gardening Features
Three attributes make this a highly desirable shrub – it's drought tolerant, low maintenance and has spectacular flowers at a time of year when not many other woody ornamentals are in bloom. True to its botanical name (mutabilis), it is mutable, its flowers changing colour with age.
Quotes from the Mother
The Supreme has sent his Grace into the world to save it.
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Justice is the strict logical determinism of the movements of Universal Nature. Illnesses are this determinism applied to the material body. The medical mind, basing itself upon this ineluctable Justice, strives to bring about conditions that should lead logically to good health. The moral consciousness acts in the same way in the social body and tapasya in the spiritual domain.
The Divine Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice. The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace. The Mother is the great dispensatrix—through identity—of the Divine Grace, with a perfect knowledge— through identity—of the absolute mechanism of Universal
Justice.
And through her mediation each movement of sincere and confident aspiration towards the Divine calls down in response the intervention of the Grace.
Who can stand before Thee, Lord, and say in all sincerity, “I have never made a mistake”? How many times in a day we commit faults against Thy work, and always Thy Grace comes to efface them! Without the intervention of Thy Grace, who would not often times have come under the merciless blade of the Law of Universal Justice?
Each one here represents an impossibility to be solved, but as for Thy Divine Grace all is possible. Thy Work will be, in the detail as in the whole, the accomplishment of all these impossibilities transformed into divine realisations.
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Divine Grace, Thy goodness is infinite. We bow before Thee in gratitude.
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Shocks and trials always come as a divine grace to show us the points in our being where we fall short and the movements in which we turn our back on our soul by listening to the clamour of our mental being and vital being. If we know how to accept these spiritual blows with due humility, we are sure to cover a great distance at a single bound.
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Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the Divine Grace? All are children of the one and the same Mother. Her love is equally spread over all of them. But to each one She gives according to his nature and receptivity.
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Say—“I have received his Grace: I must be worthy of it”, and then all will be well.
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Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace.
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The Grace is equally for all. But each one receives it according to his sincerity. It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and openness.
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The Divine Grace is with us and never leaves us even when the appearances are dark.
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We must learn to rely only on the Divine Grace and to call for its help in all circumstances; then it will work out constant miracles.
The Mother
