nurturing children to be inquisitive and open to the world
Fast growing rounded shrub with flat bright pink flower clusters in summer that cover the plant. Dark green foliage has purplish tips. Use in the border or as an informal hedge. Beautiful colour addition to the landscape. Remove spent flowers to promote continual blooming.
Froebel Spirea – Spiraea x bumalda 'Froebelii' | Bylands Nurseries Ltd..
A parcel of greenery in the middle of Zurich, the Rieterpark was bought in the 19th century by the German merchant Otto Wesendonck, who entrusted the layout and floral creation to architect Leonhard Zeugheer and landscape artist Theodor Froebel.
Theodor (1810–1893) and Otto (1844–1906) Froebel belong to some of the most important Swiss garden designers of the 19th century and made a significant contribution to the emergence of Swiss landscape architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries
Otto Froebel is an erect herbaceous perennial to 60cm in height, with glossy dark green, divided foliage and single, vermilion flowers 10-12cm in width, with orange-yellow stamens
via RHS Plant Selector Paeonia peregrina Otto Froebel AGM / RHS Gardening.
we suddenly realized, what could be better than having an actual child help us? And that’s how my 6-year-old son Sky became a MoMA designer. He sat down at the dinner table one night, wrote out the title of the exhibition three times, and then said, “done.”
via MoMA | Sometimes It Takes a Child to Design a Title Wall.
Very large white flowers (to 8in.) are often tinted with tips of green early in the season and mauve at other times. The huge boss of contrasting stamens of pink and red are very showy as well. A classic French hybrid from the early part of the first golden age of clematis. Blooms late spring and late summer
via Clematis Otto Froebel : Brushwood Nursery, Vines and Climbers For Your Garden.
Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), the great German educator, is famous pre-eminently for his radical insight that the first learning experiences of the very young are of crucial importance in influencing not only their later educational achievements but also the health and development of society as a whole. He devised a set of principles and practices which would form part of an interactive educational process to take place in institutions which in 1840 he named ‘kindergarten’.
The purpose of education is to encourage and guide man as a conscious, thinking and perceiving being in such a way that he becomes a pure and perfect representation of that divine inner law through his own personal choice; education must show him the ways and meanings of attaining that goal. (Friedrich Froebel 1826 Die Nenschenerziehung, pp. 2).
It was Froebel, a German educationalist, who laid the foundations for modern education systems based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. Continue reading “The birth of the kindergarten”
