May is National Historic Preservation Month
Celebrating the Log Cabin in Langford Park
May is National Historic Preservation Month. The Historic Log Cabin was listed on the Martin County Register of Historic Places in 2006 and is now a unique feature on the Martin County Historic Preservation Trail. The Jensen Beach Garden Club has maintained the beautiful garden at the Log Cabin for almost ten years. Please see the Gardens We Maintain tab and the photos below for more information about these gardens at one of Martin County's most treasured facilities.
Originally built in 1935 on 4th Street in downtown Stuart (now East Ocean), the local community enjoyed the Cabin as a meeting place for events such as dances and high school band practice, the Girl Scout Troops, and the local Kiwanis. But in 1971, it was believed to have lost its usefulness, so the Log Cabin was disassembled and placed outdoors near the MC Fairgrounds. The logs sat in a pile rotting, but folks had high hopes that a restoration would soon follow. After eight long years in the Florida weather, a local contractor Vince Bocchino agreed with members of the community and county commissioners to meticulously reassemble the Cabin and relocate it to Langford Park in Jensen Beach. The Cabin reopened in November 1981.
Today our historic log cabin is home to Martin County Parks and Recreation Senior Center. Pop in one day and see the beautiful coral and stone fireplace. Check out the beautiful frangipani tree and other pretty plants around the hand-built Cabin.
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On May 19, 2023, Dana von Rinteln, President of the Jensen Beach Garden Club, was a guest speaker at the event celebrating the history of the Log Cabin at Langford Park. She shared that the Club's Garden Committee has donated their time and efforts to planning, tending, and enhancing the gardens at the Cabin for almost ten years.
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The Frangipani is popularly known as the plumeria and it has an intoxicating fragrance, especially at night when moths pollinate. But the moth won't find a sweet tasting nectar, but only a disappointment. The frangipani is nothing but a tease to the moth, so as he leaves the bloom, he shakes off the pollen that he bumped into and it falls to the ground. Buds appear here in our tropical zone in March and April that will open through October and November.
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Our frangipani is yellow and this gorgeous specimen requires minimal work. They are closely related to milkweeds and oleanders. With proper pruning the plant can be a shrub or in containers, but most often you see them as trees and reach heights of more than 20 feet, unless you find a dwarf which won't grow more than 10 feet. A favorite everywhere in South Florida.
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The Staghorn Fern is in the polypod family. They grow slowly but can be impressively large when mature. Easy to grow, they like shade and are epiphytic which means they like to grow on other plants. Make sure they have good air circulation, bright indirect light and consistent moisture. A wire basket or a hunk of bark or driftwood on a tree is the best place for them. Some of the leaves will droop, others will be erect. Like the frangipani, you see the staghorn fern everywhere here. We love them! The bigger the better.
